Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
Quotes from The New Gods — Emil Cioran
1911–1995 France
29 quotes
The New Gods (1969)
The New Gods (1969)
The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
The New Gods (1969)
The New Gods (1969)
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
The New Gods (1969)
To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.
The New Gods (1969)
They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.
The New Gods (1969)
To conceive a thought — just one, but one that would tear the universe to pieces.
The New Gods (1969)
We should, out of decency, choose for ourselves the moment to disappear.
The New Gods (1969)
Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.
The New Gods (1969)
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.
The New Gods (1969)
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
The New Gods (1969)
We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
The New Gods (1969)
Skepticism is an exercise in defascination.
The New Gods (1969)
The New Gods (1969)
When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.
The New Gods (1969)
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
The New Gods (1969)
The New Gods (1969)
The New Gods (1969)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emil Cioran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.