Emil Cioran citáty page 9

„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?“

“Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty v angličtine

“If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Everyone must destroy their life. According to the way they do it, they're either triumphants or failures.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action — mother of all vices — I am the cause of no one's suffering.”

The New Gods (1969)

“I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Anxiety — or the fanaticism of the worst.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Self-pity is not as sterile as we suppose. Once we feel its mere onset, we assume a thinker's attitude, and come to think of it, we come to think!”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“This world was created from God's fear of solitude. In other words, us, the creatures, have no other meaning but to distract the Creator. Poor clowns of the absolute, we forget that we live dramas for the boredom of a spectator, whose claps have never reached the ears of a mortal.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We regret not having the courage to make such and such decision; we regret much more having made one — any one. Better no action than the consequences of an action.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Woe to the book you can read without constantly wondering about the author!”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To be or not to be…Neither one nor the other.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life. We are reluctant, of course, to treat birth as a scourge: has it not been inculcated as the sovereign good — have we not been told that the worst came at the end, not at the outset of our lives? Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us. What escaped Jesus did not escape Buddha: "If three things did not exist in the world, O disciples, the Perfect One would not appear in the world. …" And ahead of old age and death he places the fact of birth, source of every infirmity, every disaster.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.”

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)