Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
Emile M. Cioran
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Emile M. Cioran
Zero
Intention
Result
Struggle
Results
Always
Ceasing
Struggled
Sole
More quotes by Emile M. Cioran
Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.
Emile M. Cioran
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
Emile M. Cioran
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.
Emile M. Cioran
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Emile M. Cioran
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
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
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran
Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
Emile M. Cioran
The Holy Ghost, Luther instructs us, is not a skeptic. Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.
Emile M. Cioran
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act. And they do calm down.
Emile M. Cioran
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.
Emile M. Cioran
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
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
Emile M. Cioran
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
Emile M. Cioran
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Emile M. Cioran
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Emile M. Cioran
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
Emile M. Cioran