Quote

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Disaster
Ideas
Victim
Surprises
Way
Invincible
Love
Endure
Enduring
Surprise
Occurs
Succeed
Victims
Whatever
Superior
Idea
Superiors
Next

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Word - that invisible dagger.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
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
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