Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
light solitude world
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.
blow world language
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.
agony world method
I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
world madness utopia
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
forgiving world betrayed
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.
world ruling
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
fire tears world
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
world illusion destroying
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
suicide world melancholy
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
other-worlds nihilism patents
There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
world melancholy ends
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
mean world degrees
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.
being-yourself chaos chaos-in-the-world
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
regret men world
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.