Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old E.m. Cioran quotes, E.m. Cioran sayings, and E.m. Cioran proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.E.M. Cioran
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Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.E.M. Cioran
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We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.E.M. Cioran
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He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. E.M. Cioran
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You speak of God frequently. It is a word I no longer use, ' an ex-nun writes me. Not everyone has the good fortune to be disgusted by it.E.M. Cioran
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Imagine him, further, without faith— a nihilist mystic— and we have the disastrous consummation of the earthly venture.E.M. Cioran
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Alongside intellectual disgust develops another, deeper and more dangerous: emanating from the viscera, it ends at the severest form of nihilism, the nihilism of repletion. E.M. Cioran
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Consciousness intervenes in our action only to frustrate their execution; consciousness is a perpetual interrogation of life, it is perhaps the ruin of life.E.M. Cioran
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Consciousness: summa of our discomforts from birth to the present. Such discomforts have vanished; consciousness remains— but it has lost its origins, it doesn't even know what they were.E.M. Cioran
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That envy is universal is best proved by the fact that it breaks out among the mad themselves in their brief intervals of lucidity.E.M. Cioran
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That man is going to disappear has been, heretofore, my firm conviction. But now I've changed my mind: he must disappear. E.M. Cioran
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You must have powerful religious dispositions in order to utter with conviction the word being; you must believe simply to say about an object or about someone that it or he is.E.M. Cioran
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Whatever induces collapse is thereby deserving of being listened to.E.M. Cioran
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live— moreover, the only one.E.M. Cioran
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Sexuality is a great leveler; better it strips us of our mystery...Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else; it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.E.M. Cioran
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Keeping up is the mark of a fluctuating mind that pursues nothing personal, that is unsuited to obsession, that continual impasse.E.M. Cioran
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To express an obsession is to project it outside yourself. To hunt it down, to exorcise it. obsessions are the demons of a world without faith.E.M. Cioran
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The apparent symmetry of joys and pains has nothing to do with their equitable distribution: it results from the injustice which strikes certain individuals, thereby forcing them to compensate by their despondency for the other's unconcern.E.M. Cioran
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It is just possible to imagine God speaking French. Christy never. His words do not function in a language so ill at ease in the naive or the sublimeE.M. Cioran
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As if I didn't have enough troubles, here I am harassed by those that must have been known to the cavemen.E.M. Cioran
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