45 Quotations by E. M. Cioran
- 1. A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
- 2. A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its se ...
- 3. A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals h ...
- 4. Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encount ...
- 5. Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
- 6. Criticism is a misconception. We must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
- 7. Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people ...
- 8. Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
- 9. Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -- unwilling either to assimilate or to exhau ...
- 10. God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
- 11. Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
- 12. If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
- 13. Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi ...
- 14. It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
- 15. Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain ...
- 16. Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with o ...
- 17. Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
- 18. Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ours ...
- 19. No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
- 20. No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
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