Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
conviction ifs
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
doubt shame ifs
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without shame.
solitude protect ifs
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
ifs
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
knowing reason ifs
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
spots ifs
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
soul sadism skepticism
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
people normal forget
Normal people have nothing to forget.
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
fear history result ultimately
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
freedom merely
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
reality silence despair
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
powerful blow brain
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.