11 Best Emil Cioran Quotes And Sayings

“We change ideas like neckties.” – Emil Cioran

“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.” – Emil Cioran

“Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.” – Emil Cioran

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.” – Emil Cioran

“In most cases we attach ourselves to God in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men.” – Emil Cioran

“Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.” – Emil Cioran

“You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.” – Emil Cioran

“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.” – Emil Cioran

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.” – Emil Cioran

“Il ne fait aucun doute pour moi que la sagesse est le but principal de la vie et c'est pourquoi je reviens toujours aux stoïciens. Ils ont atteint la sagesse, on ne peut donc plus les appeler des philosophes au sens propre du terme. De mon point de vue, la sagesse est le terme naturel de la philosophie, sa fin dans les deux sens du mot. Une philosophie finit en sagesse et par l? Même ...

... disparaît.” – Emil Cioran

“I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure and pain, I prefer devouring passions. The sage knows neither the tragedy of passion, nor the fear of death, nor risk and enthusiasm, nor barbaric, grotesque, or sublime heroism. He talks in proverbs and gives advice. He does not live, feel, desire, ...

... wait for anything. He levels down all the incongruities of life and then suffers the consequences. So much more complex is the man who suffers from limitless anxiety. The wise man's life is empty and sterile, for it is free from contradiction and despair. An existence full of irreconcilable contradictions is so much richer and creative. The wise man's resignation springs from inner ...

... void, not inner fire. I would rather die of fire than of void.” – Emil Cioran