Speech and silence. We feel safer with a... by Emile M. Cioran | We Heart Quotes

philosopher Philosophy Open essayist Existentialism

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

- Emile M. Cioran

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Death Life

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

- Emile M. Cioran

Nothing

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

- Emile M. Cioran

Democracy Nothing

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

- Emile M. Cioran

Imagination Life

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

- Emile M. Cioran

First

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

- Emile M. Cioran

Parents

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

- Emile M. Cioran

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