E. M. Cioran | Favorite Quotes
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A Little Bit About E. M. Cioran
E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was a Romanian born writer, who eventually settled in Paris in 1937, and lived there until his death. He has authored numerous works, and is known as a poet, philosopher essayist and pessimist. His works have been translated in many different languages.
Cioran's major themes are: pessimism, skepticism and nihilism. Cioran also wrote commentary on music, politics and religion. He is well-known in both France, and Romania, mostly for his work in aphorisms. Although his writing has a very terse, and intense quality to it, Cioran is hailed as being the most distinguished of the modern thinkers in a type of philosophy know as anti-systematic. Most of his works are not long drawn out histories, but rather lyrical meanderings on life. Below are some of his most famous quotes, as well as a list of books that everyone should read.
Cioran's major themes are: pessimism, skepticism and nihilism. Cioran also wrote commentary on music, politics and religion. He is well-known in both France, and Romania, mostly for his work in aphorisms. Although his writing has a very terse, and intense quality to it, Cioran is hailed as being the most distinguished of the modern thinkers in a type of philosophy know as anti-systematic. Most of his works are not long drawn out histories, but rather lyrical meanderings on life. Below are some of his most famous quotes, as well as a list of books that everyone should read.
E.M Cioran | Speaking For Himself
"I feel I am free but I know I am not."-- Emile M. Cioran
"What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and consent to exist."
-- Emile M. Cioran
"What life is left him robs him of what reason is left him. Trifles or scourges--the passing of a fly or the cramps of the planet--horrify him equally. With his nerves on fire, he would like the Earth to be made of glass, to shatter it to smithereens; and with what thirst would fling himself toward the stars to reduce them to powder, one by one." -- Emile M. Cioran
"Man is the great deserter of being." -- Emile M. Cioran
"We smile, because no answer is conceivable, because the answer would be even more meaningless than the question." -- Emile M. Cioran
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E.M. Cioran | In His Own Words
"Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers." -- Emile M. Cioran"To stretch out in a field, to smell the earth and tell yourself it is the end as well as the hope of our dejections, that it would be futile to search for anything better to rest on, to dissolve into."
-- Emile M. Cioran
"In certain men, everything, absolutely everything, derives from physiology: their body is their mind, their mind is their body." -- Emile M. Cioran
"Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have." -- Emile M. Cioran
"As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it" -- Emile M. Cioran
"From denial to denial, his existence is diminished: vaguer and more unreal than a syllogism of sighs, how could he still be a creature of flesh and blood? Anemic, he rivals the Idea itself; he has abstracted himself from his ancestors, from his friends, from every soul and himself; in his veins, once turbulent, rests a light from another world. Liberated from what he has lived, unconcerned by what he will live; he demolishes the signposts on all his roads, and wrests himself from the dials of all time. "I shall never meet myself again," he decides, happy to turn his last hatred against himself, happier still to annihilate--in his forgiveness--all beings, all things."
-- Emile M. Cioran
"I roam through life like a whore in a world without any sidewalk." -- Emile M. Cioran
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E.M. Cioran | Speaking From 'The Temptation To Exist'
"We want space at all costs, even if the mind must sacrifice its laws there, its old requirements." -- Emil M. Cioran"For contrary reasons, language is advantageous only to the vulgar and to the poet; if we profit by falling asleep over words or by fighting them, we run, on the other hand, some risk in sounding them out in order to discover their deception." -- Emil M. Cioran
"A civilization exists and asserts itself only by acts of provocation." -- Emil M. Cioran
"Almost all our discoveries are due to our violences, to the exacerbation of our instability." -- Emil M. Cioran
"Nothingness may well have been more convenient." -- Emil M. Cioran
"Never at rest, the artist must sustain his disorders, waste his strength, create his own happiness and misery, produce." -- Emil M. Cioran
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greenlungsofpoland
Nov 10, 2011 @ 5:00 pm | delete
- Super work nicely done
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JoshK47
Nov 5, 2011 @ 10:41 am | delete
- Very interesting quotes.
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artillery
Nov 7, 2011 @ 6:01 pm | delete
- thanks. Cioran has some of the most interesting things to say. there is only one like him!
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