The west - what curse has fallen upon it that at the term of its trajectory it produces only these businessmen, these shopkeepers, these racketeers with their blank stares and atrophied smiles... is it with such vermin as this that a civilization so delicate and so complex must come to an end
More Quotes from Emile Cioran:
Our contortions, visible or secret, we communicate to the planet already it trembles even as we do, it suffers the contagion of our crises and, as this grand mal spreads, it vomits us forth, cursing us the while.Emile Cioran
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.
Emile Cioran
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.
Emile Cioran
Balkans - that taste for devastation, for internal clutter, for a universe like a brothel on fire the last primitives in Europe.
Emile Cioran
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.
Emile Cioran
Readers Who Like This Quotation Also Like:
Based on Topics: Smiling Quotes, Society & Civilization QuotesBased on Keywords: atrophied, racketeers, shopkeepers, stares, vermin
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
Lorraine Hansberry
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
Herb Caen
The standards to get in are very high. We don't want to lower those standards.
Hugh Shelton