Quote

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Emile M. Cioran

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Emile M. Cioran
Redeems
Separates
Melancholy
Universe

More quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Image
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
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
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
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
The universal view melts things into a blur.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
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
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
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
Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Man is a robot with defects.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
To hope is to contradict the future.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
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
Image
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
Emile M. Cioran