Emil Cioran citáty page 6

„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?“

“Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning!”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Thought is as much a lie as love or faith.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know it? The consciousness of misery is too serious a disease to figure in an arithmetic of agonies or in the catalogues of the Incurable. It belittles the prestige of hell, and converts the slaughterhouses of time into idyls. What sin have you committed to be born, what crime to exist? Your suffering like your fate is without motive. To suffer, truly to suffer, is to accept the invasion of ills without the excuse of causality, as a favor of demented nature, as a negative miracle...”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The skeptic is the least mysterious man in the world, and yet, starting from a certain moment, he no longer belongs to this world.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”

The New Gods (1969)

“The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies. ––The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.”

The New Gods (1969)

“To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left…with a foolish grin.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“How many disappointments are conducive to bitterness? One or a thousand, depending on the subject.”

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." - I could not, alas, find anything better.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.”

The New Gods (1969)

“I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Of all calumnies the worst is the one which attacks our indolence, which contests its authenticity.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Of all that makes us suffer, nothing — so much as disappointment — gives us the sensation of at last touching Truth.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The universal view melts things into a blur.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)