Emil Cioran citáty page 3

„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 multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”

Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: The Trouble with Being Born

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”

Varianta: Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“Read day and night, devour books — these sleeping pills — not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”

Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”

Zdroj: Tears and Saints (1937)

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

Zdroj: A Short History of Decay (1949)

“There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I long to be free — desperately free. Free as the stillborn are free.”

“Between the demand to be clear, and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.”

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Zdroj: On the Heights of Despair

“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job…”

Zdroj: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique — and insignificant.”

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

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

“How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)