(136 quotes found)
“Our first intuitions are the true ones.”
Emile M. Cioran
“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”
“A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.”
“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
“The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?”
“You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the "mystery" of life.”
“The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.”
“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
“Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.”
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
