Emil Cioran Quotes

To leave in search of yourself, of your real needs, is easier when you don't have to justify yourself to anyone, when there are not too many people bestowing you their attention.

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.

Turning 30 was really big for me. I can get really stuck on 'I don't like this or that about myself.' I've found that the only thing that breaks that for me is being able to spend time alone, going to the movies by myself or going to art museums alone. I do that a lot. I've discovered the importance of even 15 or 30 minutes a day where it is just me.

It is necessary now and then for a man to go away by himself and experience loneliness; to sit on a rock in the forest and to ask of himself, 'Who am I, and where have I been, and where am I going?'...If one is not careful, one allows diversions to take up one's time-the stuff of life

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.

In the quiet moments of your day, what do you think and do? When you are with your Self and no one else, how does life proceed for you? Who are you when you are alone? Self-creation is a Holy Experience. It is sacred. It is you, deciding Who You Are.

When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.

So it is necessary that we should learn to be alone.

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude, and the society of thyself.

It is only in solitude that I ever find my own core.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going.

I looked into that empty bottle and I saw myself.

I enjoy my own thoughts sometimes.

I like the idea of isolation. I like the reality of it. You realize what you are... not that the knowledge is inevitably rewarding.

I've realised that I actually like being by myself.

In order to find yourself, who you really are, you got to be with yourself; you got to hang out with yourself.

I use solitude as a judge and as a person - a lot.

It took living alone for me to really get to know myself.

To develop our real selves, we need time alone for thought and meditation. To be always giving out and never pumping in, the well runs dry.

We must relearn to be alone.