Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emile M. Cioran
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Emile M. Cioran
Trembling
Freedom
Enjoy
Without
More quotes by Emile M. Cioran
We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job.
Emile M. Cioran
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.
Emile M. Cioran
The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
Emile M. Cioran
There is no limit to suffering.
Emile M. Cioran
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
Emile M. Cioran
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
Emile M. Cioran
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.
Emile M. Cioran
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Emile M. Cioran
Time is heavy sometimes imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emile M. Cioran
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
Emile M. Cioran
How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
Emile M. Cioran
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a sewer, where they cease throbbing, as though having reached their natural term: this downfall constitutes the heart's drama and the negative meaning of history.
Emile M. Cioran
Everything turns on pain the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.
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
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
Tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
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
This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.
Emile M. Cioran
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Emile M. Cioran