Quotes About Cioran

To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Dac?-mi place atîta corespondenÅ£a lui Dostoievski e pentru c? acolo nu e vorba decît de boal? ÅŸi de bani, unice subiecte <>. Tot restul nu e decît înflorituri ÅŸi talmeÅŸ-balmeÅŸ.

Only to the degree that our moments afford us some contact with death do we have some chance to glimpse on what insanity all existence is based.

I cannot differentiate between tears and music' (Nietzsche). Whoever is not immediately struck by the profundity of this statement has not lived for a minute in the intimacy of music. I know no other music than that of tears. Born out of the loss of paradise, music gives birth to the symbols of this loss: tears.

The leftist's despair is to battle in the name of principles that forbid him cynicism.

I abuse the word God; I use it often, too often. I employ it each time I touch an extremity and need a word to designate what comes after. I prefer God to the Inconceivable.

My weaknesses have spoiled my existence, but it is thanks to them that I exist

I cannot bear your bothering about my salvation.

Ibiza me réussit aussi mal que Valldemosa à Chopin.

Kandinsky maintains that yellow is the color of life... Now we know why this hue so hurts the eyes.

When I despise myself, I tell myself, in order to shore up my confidence, that, after all, I have managed to maintain myself in being or in a semblance of being, with a perception of things that very few could have endured.

Existence might well have had some attraction before the advent of noise — let us say, before the neolithic age. When will he come, the man who can rid us of all men?

Voltaire was the first literary man to erect his incompetence into a procedure, a method.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

No se pueden evitar los defectos de los hombres sin huir al mismo tiempo de sus virtudes. De ahí que la sensatez nos destruya.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.