Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
World
Nonexistence
Patent
Provoked
Nihilism
Patents
Inner
Smile
Even

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.
Emile M. Cioran