Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Character
Totally
Reason
Answer
Live
Lies
Without
Answers
Would
Probably
Life
Stop
Maintains
Lying
Irrational
Living
Sincere

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
Emile M. Cioran
Image
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.
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
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
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
To hope is to contradict the future.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Normal people have nothing to forget.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
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