Emil Cioran citáty

„Na čo ešte čakáte, keď sa chcete vzdať?“

„Človek sa cíti byť naplnený až vtedy, keď prestane byť človekom.“

„Jediní zaujímaví filozofi sú tí, ktorí prestali myslieť a začali hľadať šťastie.“

„Hovorieval si, že musíme žiť, akoby sme nikdy nemali zomrieť. - Nevedel si, že tak žijú všetci, vrátane tých, ktorí sú posadnutí smrťou?“

„Smútok: apetít, ktorý nenasýti žiadne nešťastie.“

Emil Cioran Citáty o šťastí

„Nato, aby sme boli šťastní, museli by sme stále mať v duši obraz možných nešťastí, ktorým sme unikli.“

„V Európe sa šťastie končí vo Viedni. Za ňou je odjakživa kliatba na kliatbe.“

„Tým, že sa príroda podvolila ľuďom, spáchala atentát sama na seba.“

Emil Cioran citáty a výroky

„Knihy by sa mali písať len vtedy, ak chceme povedať veci, s ktorými sa neodvažujeme nikomu zdôveriť.“

„Raj bol neznesiteľný, ináč by sa bol prvý človek s ním uspokojil.“

„Dúfať znamená popierať budúcnosť.“

„Filozofická móda je dakedy podobná gastronomickej: niektorej myšlienke nemožno odolať tak ako dobrému jedlu.“

„Jediná služba, ktorú môžeme žiadať od druhých je, aby neuhádli, nakoľko sme úbohí.“

„Každá forma chvatu, aj smerom k dobrému, prezrádza určitú duševnú poruchu.“

„Najväčší strach mám z toho, že ma porozumejú.“

„S Bohom sa nezaoberáme beztrestne.“

„Skutočnosť, že žijem, dokazuje, že svet nemá žiadny zmysel.“

„Staroba je sebakritika prírody.“

„Ten, kto má strach pred smiešnosťou, nedotiahne to veľmi ďaleko, ani v dobrom, ani v zlom.“

„Všetci sme komedianti: prežijeme naše problémy.“

„Filozofia ponúka liek proti melanchólii. A mnohí stále veria v hĺbku filozofie!“

„Napokon, prečo by mali obyčajní ľudia chcieť uvažovať o konci, najmä keď vidíme, v akom stave sú tí, ktorí o ňom uvažujú?“

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death?”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“The farther men get from God, the farther they advance into the knowledge of religions.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.”

“In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“"What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."”

The New Gods (1969)

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.”

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”

Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

“Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“Self-knowledge — the bitterest knowledge of all and also the kind we cultivate least: what is the use of catching ourselves out, morning to night, in the act of illusion, pitilessly tracing each act back to its root, and losing case after case before our own tribunal?”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood — all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Except for music, everything is a lie, even solitude, even ecstasy. Music, in fact, is the one and the other, only better.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)