Emil Cioran Quotes
Best 20 Other Quotes by Emil Cioran
“A book is a suicide postponed.”
“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”
“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
“Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.”
“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”
“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
“Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”
“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live –– moreover, the only one.”
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“Scientists, however, are still believed to be objective. No study of the lives of the great scientists will confirm this. They were as passionate, and hence as prejudiced, as any assembly of great painters or great musicians. It was not just the Church but also the established astronomers of the time who condemned Galileo. The majority of physicists rejected Einstein’s Special Relativity Theory in 1905. Einstein himself would not accept anything in quantum theory after 1920 no matter how many experiments supported it. Edison’s commitment to direct current (DC) electrical generators led him to insist alternating current (AC) generators were unsafe for years after their safety had been proven to everyone else.”
“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”
“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”
“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”
“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
