Quote

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Turns
Murderers
Time
Murderer
Mission
Missions
Kill
Among
Comfortable
Turn

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Society: an inferno of saviors!
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Word - that invisible dagger.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
Emile M. Cioran
Image
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Wisdom disguises our wounds it teaches us how to bleed in secret.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran