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„Filozofie nabízí protilátku proti melancholii. A mnozí stále věří v hloubku filozofie!“

„Když víte, že nic není skutečné, nechápete, proč byste se měli namáhat s dokazováním.“

„Největší událostí druhé poloviny 20. století je zanikání chodníků.“

„Ani všichni filozofové světa spolu nemají takovou hodnotu jako jeden světec.“

Zdroj: [Procházka, Milan, Podvratný dobrodruh Duteurtre, novinky.cz, 2004-01-09, 2011-03-02, http://www.novinky.cz/kultura/23153-podvratny-dobrodruh-duteurtre.html]

„Člověk se naplní teprve tehdy, když přestane být člověkem.“

„Koneckonců, proč by obyčejní lidé měli chtít uvažovat o konci, zvláště když vidíme, v jakém stavu jsou ti, kteří o něm uvažují?“

„Říkával jsi, že musíme žít, jako bychom nikdy neměli zemřít. Copak nevíš, že tak žijí všichni, včetně těch, kteří jsou posedlí smrtí?“

„Na co čekáte, abyste to vzdali?“

“When you know that every problem is only a false problem, you are dangerously close to salvation.”

Emil Cioran: Citáty anglicky

“Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?”

The New Gods (1969)

“Fear is the antidote to boredom: the remedy must be stronger than the disease.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.”

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“To have grazed every form of failure, including success.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Only the idiot is equipped to breathe.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It has been a long time since philosophers have read men's souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness.... I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory.... Let "desire" be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)
Varianta: By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness... I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory... Let “desire” be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.

“We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.”

Emil M. Cioran kniha The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)