Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
country men self
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...
self would-be scrutiny
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.
self rejection substance
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
civilization self advice
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.
self sensations
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
self flaws easy
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
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.