Emil Cioran citáty page 7

„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?“

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“When we know what words are worth, the amazing thing is that we try to say anything at all, and that we manage to do so. This requires, it is true, a supernatural nerve.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“The flesh spreads, further and further, like a gangrene upon the surface of the globe. It cannot impose limits upon itself, it continues to be rife despite its rebuffs, it takes its defeats for conquests, it has never learned anything. It belongs above all to the realm of the Creator, and it is indeed in the flesh that He has projected His maleficent instincts.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“…all of the philosophers put together are not worth a single saint.”

The New Gods (1969)

“Long before physics or psychology were born, pain disintegrated matter, and affliction the soul.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“If you don't want to explode with rage, leave your memory alone, abstain from burrowing there.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“To act is to anchor in the imminent future.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the void.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Sadness makes you God's prisoner.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Get hold of yourself, be confident once more, don't forget that it is not given to just anyone to have idolized discouragement without succumbing to it.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“There are questions which, once approached, either isolate you or kill you outright.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end of humanity…”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”

The New Gods (1969)

“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime…”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to form a reality to reality's detriment.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“You have dreamed of setting the world ablaze, and you have not even managed to communicate your fire to words, to light up a single one!”

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Even more than in a poem, it is the aphorism that the word is god.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The moment we believe we've understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)