Émile Michel Cioran: Zitate auf Englisch

Émile Michel Cioran war rumänischer Philosoph. Zitate auf Englisch.
Émile Michel Cioran: 588 Zitate1602 Gefällt mir

“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

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

“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: On the Heights of Despair

“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me the taste, even the passion for being unproductive: what was the use of being prized in a world inhabited by madmen, a world mired in mania and stupidity? For whom was one to bother, and to what end? It remains to be seen if I have quite freed myself from this certitude, salvation in the absolute, ruin in the immediate.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch Lehre vom Zerfall

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We replace God as best we can; for every god is good, provided he perpetuates in eternity our desire for a crucial solitude....”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch Lehre vom Zerfall

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Dead of night. No one, nothing but the society of the moments. Each pretends to keep us company, then escapes — desertion after desertion.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Quelle: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)

“The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch Lehre vom Zerfall

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“To found a family. I think it would have been easier for me to found an empire.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“A word, once dissected, no longer signifies anything, is nothing. Like a body that, after an autopsy, is less than a corpse.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle…”

Help us translate this quote

Emil M. Cioran buch Lehre vom Zerfall

A Short History of Decay (1949)