45 Quotations by E. M. Cioran
- 21. No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
- 22. One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -- and ...
- 23. Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist -- a dem ...
- 24. Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
- 25. Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
- 26. Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ...
- 27. Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
- 28. Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
- 29. The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live -- moreover, the only one.
- 30. The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on ...
- 31. The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
- 32. The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte ...
- 33. The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, th ...
- 34. There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
- 35. Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- ...
- 36. To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
- 37. To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As s ...
- 38. To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
- 39. Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
- 40. Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than ...
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