Emil Cioran citáty page 12

„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?“

“Try to be free: you will die of hunger.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“Lord, give me the capacity of never praying, spare me the insanity of all worship, let this temptation of love pass from me which would deliver me forever unto You. Let the void spread between my heart and heaven! I have no desire to people my deserts by Your presence, to tyrannize my nights by Your light, to dissolve my Siberias beneath Your sun.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Only what we have not accomplished and what we could not accomplish matters to us, so that what remains of a whole life is only what it will not have been.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“All my life, I have lived with the feeling that I have been kept from my true place. If the expression "metaphysical exile" had no meaning, my existence alone would afford it one.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Out of the shadow of the abstract man, who thinks for the pleasure of thinking, emerges the organic man, who thinks because of a vital imbalance, and who is beyond science and art.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As soon as one returns to Doubt (if it could be said that one has ever left it), undertaking anything at all seems not so much useless as extravagant. Doubt works deep within you like a disease, or even more effectively, like a faith.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death's prisoner.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don't know, and we don't really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.”

The New Gods (1969)

“What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you — what a revelation.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Endless brooding over a question undermines you as much as a dull pain.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”

The New Gods (1969)

“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Irons and the unbreathable air of this world strip us of everything, except the freedom to kill ourselves; and this freedom grants us a strength and pride to triumph over the loads which overwhelm us.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“To fear is to die every minute.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Pursued by our origins…we all are.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)