Quotes by Emile M. Cioran - Page 1

We are all geniuses when we dream.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Death
Genius
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Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Sad
Appetite
Melancholy
Misery
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Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Music
Music Is
Refuge
Soul
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Intelligence
Age
Belief
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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Jealousy
Jealous
Aversion
Secret
Worship
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Moving On
Giving
Moved On
Names
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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
God
Atheism
Disease
Imagine
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I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Zero
Intention
Results
Struggle
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Death
Genius
Poet
Sleep
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There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Smile
Deep Thought
Nihilism
Other Worlds
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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.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Jobs
Consent
Judged
Regard
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Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Depression
Fighting
Pessimism
Vitality
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Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Optimistic
Needs
Rose
Vision
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Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
Emile M. Cioran / Philosopher
Music
Giving
Profound
Thinking
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