{"author":"Emil M. Cioran","author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran","total_quotes":75,"quotes":[{"text":"One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["country","language","philosophy"],"id":2147,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["healthy","life","philosophy","think"],"id":18683,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["silence"],"id":33825,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["despair"],"id":37811,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor faptul ca exist.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["philosophy"],"id":38481,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes...","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["religion","saints"],"id":61957,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... Afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["inspirational","joyful","uplifting"],"id":62953,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"The one who had not ever conceived his own annulment, who had not foreseen the resource of the cord, the bullet, the poison or the sea, is a debased prisoner or a crawling worm on the cosmic carrion. This world can take off us everything, it can forbid us everything, but nobody can't prevent us our self-abolition.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["suicide"],"id":63084,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu I-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["existence","fatality","philosophy","torment"],"id":66287,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"},{"text":"We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts them, creates and disfigures them, and binds us to them. I bestir myself, therefore I emit a world as suspect as my speculation which justifies it; I espouse movement, which changes me into a generator of being, into an artisan of fictions, while my cosmogonic verve makes me forget that, led on by the whirlwind of acts, I am nothing but an acolyte of time, an agent of decrepit universes. (...)If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.","author":"Emil M. Cioran","tags":["action","bondage","elusiveness-of-the-real","fiction","freedom","mind","movement","purity","sensation","thought"],"id":74561,"author_id":"Emil+M.+Cioran"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":75,"pages":8,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}