Top 100 Quotes About Emil
#1. Emil Drukker, the Head-hunter of Cologne.
Earl Peirce
#2. When we find her, I'm still going to fight for her.-Emil-
Angela Corbett
#3. Emil wanted to serve his nation and make her great again. He wanted to be a good Nazi, he really did, but when he thought of Anne and the terrified expression on her face, he shook his head. He faked a limp all the way home.
Lee Strauss
#4. I don't blame Germans," Emil said. "I don't even blame Nazis. I blame people who want to live at the expense of others.
Steve Anderson
#6. Emil stood on the other side, bags under his
eyes, his hair disheveled. I'd never seen him look so
unkempt. He actually seemed depressed. I motioned
for him to come in. When he did, I shut the door and
he followed me to the couches.
Angela Corbett
#7. Most people never question the core beliefs they grow up with," Emil confirmed. "You can look back on any culture five hundred years later and wonder how they could have ever believed some of the contradictory or flat-out insane things they accepted as law or common sense.
Elliott James
#8. Edward was good at finding Emil's most vulnerable places. Some people are like that. Siblings maybe most of all
Frances Greenslade
#9. Emil and Jack established rival claims to a certain thick patch, and while they were squabbling about, Stuffy quickly and quietly stripped the bushes and fled to the protection of Dan
Louisa May Alcott
#10. The period 1924 to 1929 was spent studying chemistry at the Czech Institute of Technology in Prague, Czechoslovakia. The supervisor of my thesis was Professor Emil Votocek, one of the prominent founders of chemical research in Czechoslovakia.
Vladimir Prelog
#11. work, whatever it must be, is the service of God and of the community and therefore the expression of man's dignity. - Emil Brunner, Gifford Lectures, 1948
Larry Niven
#12. Maria raised herself with difficulty. "Hush. I'm getting up. See?" She sat perched on the edge of the bed, breathing heavily. "And you will have my porridge thus morning. If you share it with Emil.
Lena Coakley
#13. Did you have a good nap?" Emil asked.
"Yeah, I guess I was tired. I need to practice resting when I go on vacations instead of getting stressed out."
"Why are you stressed?" Emil Asked, perplexed. This question confirmed it for me, guys really are idiots.
Angela Corbett
#15. Everyone said, 'Emil, you are a fool!'
But when I first won the European Championship, they said: 'Emil, you are a genius!'
Emil Zatopek
#16. There is not, and never was, a greater man than Emil Zatopek.
Ron Clarke
#17. My father, Emil Palade, was professor of philosophy, and my mother, Constanta Cantemir-Palade, was a teacher. The family environment explains why I acquired early in life great respect for books, scholars and education.
George Emil Palade
#18. Nero would be long since forgotten without his outbursts of bloody clowning. ~ Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Emil Cioran
#19. I can be either a good friend or a good Nazi, Emil thought. He knew now that he couldn't be both.
Lee Strauss
#20. 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
#21. First I would like to wash Bunsen, and then I would like to kiss him because he is such a charming man.
(Remark by the wife of Emil Fischer, upon meeting Bunsen for the first time, perhaps noticing a lasting chemical odour from his work.)
Agnes Fischer
#22. She fought him by reminding herself what her father had said to Emil Hesping - that they lived in a country where believing had taken the place of knowing.
Ursula Hegi
#23. For a scientist, it is a unique experience to live through a period in which his field of endeavour comes to bloom - to be witness to those rare moments when the dawn of understanding finally descends upon what appeared to be confusion only a while ago - to listen to the sound of darkness crumbling.
George Emil Palade
#24. I've never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn't been a failure because I succeeded in doing nothing.
Emil Cioran
#25. What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
Emil Cioran
#26. As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
Emil Cioran
#28. I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.
Emil Brunner
#29. I had gone far in search of the sun, and the sun, found at last, was hostile to me. And if I were to fling myself off a cliff? While I was making such rather grim speculations, considering these pines, these rocks, these waves, I suddenly felt how bound I was to this lovely, accursed universe.
Emil M. Cioran
#30. When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.
Emil Cioran
#31. Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emil Cioran
#32. In the early 1950s, during the near avalanche of discoveries, rediscoveries, and redefinitions of subcellular components made possible by electron microscopy, those prospecting in this newly opened field were faced with the problem of what to do with their newly acquired wealth.
George Emil Palade
#33. You kill yourself only if, in some respects, you have always been outside of it all.
Emil Cioran
#34. I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Emil Cioran
#35. Shyness, inexhaustible source of misfortunes in practical life, is the direct cause, indeed unique, each inner wealth.
Emil Cioran
#36. The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life.
Emil M. Cioran
#37. Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
Emil M. Cioran
#38. We are different, in essence, from other men. If you want to win something, run 100 meters. If you want to experience something, run a marathon.
Emil Zatopek
#39. Death is the solidest thing life has invented so far
Emil Cioran
#40. Only false values prevail, because everyone can assimilate them, counterfeit them (false thereby to the second degree). An idea that succeeds is necessarily a pseudo-idea.
Emil Cioran
#41. They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!
Emil Ruder
#42. They work now with computers for building buildings and books, but not ever with new ideas.
Emil Ruder
#43. Art is exalted above religion and race. Not a single solitary soul these days believes in the religions of the Assyrians, the Egyptians and the Greeks ... Only their art, whenever it was beautiful, stands proud and exalted, rising above all time.
Emil Nolde
#44. Torn between violence and disillusionment, I seem to myself a terrorist who, going out in the street to perpetrate some outrage, stops on the way to consult Ecclesiastes or Epictetus.
Emil Cioran
#45. The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.
Emil Cioran
#46. Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?
Emil Cioran
#47. I have recommended you the dignity of skepticism: yet here I am, prowling around the Absolute. Technique of contradiction? Remember, rather, what Flaubert said: "I am a mystic and I believe in nothing".
Emil Cioran
#48. But man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.
Emil Cioran
#49. 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
#51. We are all deep in a hell, each of which is a miracle.
Emil Cioran
#52. Clever people master life; the wise illuminate it and create fresh difficulties.
Emil Nolde
#53. If we consider closely our so-called generous actions, there is none which, from some aspect, is not blameworthy an even harmful, so that we come to regret having performed it - so that we must choose, finally, between abstention and remorse.
Emil Cioran
#54. Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect.
Emil Cioran
#55. To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
Emil Cioran
#56. If we fail to forgive, we're rejecting our own faith.
Emil Kapaun
#57. If only we could reach back before the concept, could write on a level with the senses, record the infinitesimal variations of what we touch, do what a reptile would do if it were to set about writing!
Emil M. Cioran
#58. A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment.
Emil M. Cioran
#59. Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.
Emil Cioran
#60. It is not necessary to smile and make a wonderful impression on the judges.
Emil Zatopek
#61. What is an argument for the defense that neither torments nor troubles - what is a eulogy that fails to kill? Every apology should be a murder by enthusiasm.
Emil Cioran
#62. The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emil Cioran
#63. Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.
Emil Cioran
#64. Bach: a scale of tears upon which our desires for God ascend.
Emil Cioran
#65. To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
#66. It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say "we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.
Emil Cioran
#67. If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
Emil Cioran
#68. By a persistent effort of will it is possible to change the whole body. The athlete must always keep in mind this concept of change and progression. He must never accept his limitations as being permanent, because they are not.
Emil Zatopek
#69. We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.
Emil Cioran
#70. When the habit of seeing things as they are turns into a mania, we lament the madman we have been and are no longer.
Emil Cioran
#71. I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.
Emil Cioran
#72. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. ...
No sooner are they open than the drama beings. To look without understanding - that is paradise. Hell, then, would be the place where we understand, where we understand too much. ...
Emil Cioran
#73. Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emil Cioran
#74. Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil Cioran
#75. Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.
Emil Cioran
#76. Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.
Emil M. Cioran
#77. Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Emil Cioran
#78. How does it happen that in life as in literature, rebellion, however pure, has something false about it, whereas resignation, however tainted with listlessness, always gives the impression of authenticity
Emil Cioran
#79. All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through to the end. An undertaking is only possible if we have conserved a minimum of illusions. Complete lucidity is the void!
Emil Cioran
#80. Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.
Emil Cioran
#81. In Buddhist writings, mention is often made of "the abyss of birth." An abyss indeed, a gulf into which we do not fall but from which, instead, we emerge, to our universal chagrin.
Emil Cioran
#82. Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.
Emil Cioran
#83. Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.
Emil M. Cioran
#84. To be objective is to treat others as you treat an object, a corpse - to behave with them like an undertaker.
Emil Cioran
#85. Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
Emil Cioran
#86. Nothing more to pursue, except the pursuit of nothing.
Emil Cioran
#87. The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
Emil Cioran
#88. 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 Cioran
#89. Nature's great mistake was to have been unable to confine herself to one "kingdom": juxtaposed with the vegetable, everything else seems inopportune, out of place. The sun should have sulked at the appearance of the first insect, and gone out altogether with the advent of the chimpanzee.
Emil M. Cioran
#90. I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
Emil Cioran
#91. An athlete cannot run with money in his pockets. He must run with hope in his heart and dreams in his head.
Emil Zatopek
#92. The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion ... one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
Emil Cioran
#93. Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.
Emil Cioran
#94. The more one is obsessed with God, the less one is innocent. Nobody bothered about him in paradise. The fall brought about this divine torture. It's not possible to be conscious of divinity without guilt. Thus God is rarely to be found in an innocent soul.
Emil Cioran
#95. A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism.
Emil M. Cioran
#96. If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.
Emil Cioran
#97. What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.
Emil Cioran
#98. What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.
Emil Brunner
#99. There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely.
Emil Cioran
#100. Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on.
Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
Emil Cioran
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