Quotes from Emil Cioran

Gândurile cele mai adânci ÅŸi cele mai scumpe sunt acelea pentru care regret?m c? n-avem lacrimi.

Cînd ai cunoscut amaraciunile si dulceata lor, îti pare rau ca n-ai decît o inima de sfarîmat.

De dou? mii de ani Iisus se r?zbun? pe noi pentru c? nu a murit pe o canapea.

Any and all water is the color of drowning.

Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.

Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.

Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness of time. Those who are not aware of time passing do not get bored. It's not the time that passes, it's the time that doesn't pass.

što nam ljudi više okre?u le?a, više rade na našem usavršavanju: napuštaju?i nas, oni nas spasavaju.

We should have abided by our larval condition, dispensed with evolution, remained incomplete, delighting in the elemental siesta and calmly consuming ourselves in an embryonic ecstasy.

Aduni,cuceresti,castigi si lupti pentru a fugi de tine,pentru a-ti invinge intristarea de a nu exista,in mod real,decat tu insuti.

Nu am nimic de spus nim?nui,am intrat de mult? vreme în Incomunicabil.

A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.

Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals a pleasure principle, and she intends to profit by it. Abandonment enchants and fulfills her. Time continues to pass? She is not at all alarmed; let others bother about time; it is their business: they do not guess what relief there can be in wallowing in a present that leads nowhere …

For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.

numai in indoiala sunt profetii si fanaticii cu adevarat umani.

The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.

umiremo srazmerno broju rechi koje razbacujemo svuda oko sebe.oni koji govore nemaju tajni. a svi govorimo. izdajemo se, krchmimo dushu; svako se, kao dzhelat neizrecivog, upinje da unishti sve tajne, pochev od sopstvenih.

S? telefonezi cuiva ÅŸi apoi, brusc, de team? s? nu-i auzi glasul, s? închizi.-AÅŸa arat?, pe scurt, relaÅ£iile mele cu ceilalÅ£i.O sih?strie cu un dram de sociabilitate.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. …" No sooner are they open than the drama beings. To look without understanding—that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much. …

Al igual que amas los libros que te hacen llorar, las sonatas que te han cortado el aliento, los perfumes que te insinúan renunciamientos, a las mujeres extraviadas entre el cuerpo y el alma, así sucede con los mares: te enamoras de aquellos cuyo oleaje induce a ahogarse en su seno.

At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by a frenzy of pride which lasts only long enough to drain us, to leave us without energy, to lower, with our powers, the intensity of our shame.

Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.