Émile Michel Cioran: Zitate auf Englisch

Émile Michel Cioran war rumänischer Philosoph. Zitate auf Englisch.
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“I long to be free — desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.”

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Emil M. Cioran

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: On the Heights of Despair

“Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”

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Emil M. Cioran

“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: The Trouble with Being Born

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: The Trouble with Being Born

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job…”

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Emil M. Cioran

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique — and insignificant.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: The Trouble with Being Born

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

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Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”

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Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: Tears and Saints (1937)

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: The Trouble with Being Born

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”

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Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Variante: To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

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Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quelle: The Trouble with Being Born

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”

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Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: Drawn and Quartered

“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”

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Emil M. Cioran