Emil Cioran citáty page 17

„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?“

“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“No one has the audacity to exclaim: “I don’t want to do anything!” —we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.”

The New Gods (1969)

“If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Two enemies — the same man divided.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Hope is the normal form of delirium.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Thanks to depression — that alpinism of the indolent — we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“"Where do you get those superior airs of yours?" "I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?"”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Where are my sensations? They have melted into… me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Life is too full of death for death to be able to add anything to it.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for an intellectual pride.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Nothing is indefensible — from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Consciousness is nature's nightmare.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)