Quote

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Sleep
Anyone
Butcher
Dream
Butchers
Geniuses
Escape
Poet
Genius
Equal

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: I want to be praised.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
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
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out in the form of this or that reputation, starting with the literary... Since death has come to be accepted by all as the absolute end, everyone writes.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. Cioran