Quote

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Decision
Since
Must
Life
Futility
Irrational
Exist

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Word - that invisible dagger.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
Emile M. Cioran
Image
As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
How easy it is to be deep: all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.
Emile M. Cioran