All Gall Is Divided Quotes & Sayings

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence. — Emil M. Cioran

Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia. — Emil M. Cioran

Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains. — Emil M. Cioran

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more. — Emil M. Cioran

If only we could return to those ages when no utterance shackled existence, to the laconism of interjections, to the joyous stupor of the pre- verbal! — Emil M. Cioran

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels. — Edward Dahlberg

A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might - gainsaying everything - shake off my doubts and triumph over them. But I have only the taste of negation, not its grace. — Emil M. Cioran

Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are. — Emil M. Cioran

She had not learned from reading it that adultery was good or that we should all become shysters. Did people all go on strike or head west after reading Steinbeck? Did they go whaling after reading Melville? Are people not a little more complex than that? — Azar Nafisi

Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratie, Shook the arsenal, and fulmin'd over Greece, To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne. — John Milton

You with your veins full of night - you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of a circus. — Emil M. Cioran

I loved being in Close Encounters, just to watch Steven Spielberg working was exciting. — Bob Balaban

The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few bitter fools, a few disconsolate bastards, who, victims of the rigor of their cynicism, could no longer attach themselves to any vice. — Emil M. Cioran

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast. — Emil M. Cioran

Like a snake, my heart
has shed its skin.
I hold it here in my hand,
full of honey and wounds.

- New Heart — Federico Garcia Lorca

As far back as I can remember, I've utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the periphery of the Race like a timorous monster, lacking the energy to claim kinship with some other band of apes. — Emil M. Cioran

In fact, though their acquaintance had been so short, they had guessed, as always happens between lovers, everything of any importance about each other in two seconds at the utmost, and it now remained only to fill in such unimportant details as what they were called; where they lived; and whether they were beggars or people of substance. — Virginia Woolf