Emile M. Cioran Quotes about Reality

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After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

Emile M. Cioran

Reality, Silence, Despair

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Emile M. Cioran

Reality, Way, Failing

"Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce.

Emile M. Cioran

Passion, Reality, Men

"A Short History of Decay". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1949.