Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.
Quotes from Anathemas and Admirations — Emil Cioran
1911–1995 France
54 quotes
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
To have grazed every form of failure, including success.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Since the only things we remember are humiliations and defeats, what is the use of all the rest?
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
To read is to let someone else work for you — the most delicate form of exploitation.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emil Cioran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.