Emil Cioran Zitate auf Englisch

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To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Emil Cioran

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

Emil Cioran

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Emil Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Emil Cioran

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Emil Cioran

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

Emil Cioran

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Emil Cioran

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Emil Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Emil Cioran

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Emil Cioran

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

Emil Cioran

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.

Emil Cioran

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Emil Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Emil Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

Emil Cioran

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Emil Cioran

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Emil Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.

Emil Cioran

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Emil Cioran

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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Under each formula lies a corpse.

Emil Cioran

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emil Cioran

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

Emil Cioran

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

Emil Cioran

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

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My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

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Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Emil Cioran

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Emil Cioran

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

Emil Cioran

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Emil Cioran