Quote #21
We change ideas like neckties.
More from Emile Cioran
- Life inspires more dread than death-it is life which is the great unknown.
- Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
- Under each formula lies a corpse.
- Reality is a creation of our excesses.
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of …
- Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
- What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name- and moving on.
- Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.