Quote

To hope is to contradict the future.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Contradict
Future
Hope

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
There is no limit to suffering.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
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
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 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
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
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
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!
Emile M. Cioran
Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.
Emile M. Cioran