Top 16 Emil Cioran French Quotes
#1. At this very moment, I am suffering - as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
Emil Cioran
#2. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness - everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged and ecstatic joy of pure being (195).
Jack Kerouac
#3. Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
Giuseppe Verdi
#4. Go to sleep now and rest. Our job is done. You kept your promise, and I kept mine ...
Maggie Osborne
#5. It is now possible to target adverts to the right person at the right time in the right place. But that is not enough.
Jerry Della Femina
#6. The question is not How much may I indulge in and still be saved. God forbid! I must rather ask, What about Christ's will and the example I set for my fellow Christians?
Robert A. Cook
#7. Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.
Elizabeth Bowen
#9. What I wonder about the dreams is - all the new inventions people think up - how many of those things are made by people like me - like us? How many "inventions" are really memories, of the things we once knew? And - how many of us are there?
Diana Gabaldon
#10. I'm not the sort of writer who can plan out things. Mostly I have no idea where I'm going.
Chang-rae Lee
#11. Dreams are private, she said. And she is right. A dream is a story that no one else will get to hear or read.
Lloyd Jones
#12. Funest philosophers and ponderers,
Their evocations are the speech of clouds.
Wallace Stevens
#14. New things are always better than old things.
Andy Warhol
#15. I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.
Dylan Moran
#16. I think that no one individual can look at truth. It blinds you. You look at it and you see one phase of it. Someone else looks at it and sees a slightly awry phase of it. But taken all together, the truth is in what they saw though nobody saw the truth intact.
William Faulkner
