Emil Cioran Quotes

Thought is made in the mouth.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

Words are the part of silence that can be spoken.

Speech is the small change of silence.

Language is froth on the surface of thought.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

We speak now or I do, and others do. You've never spoken before. You will. You'll be able to say how the city is a pit and a hill and a standard and an animal that hunts and a vessel on the sea and the sea and how we are fish in it, not like the man who swims weekly with fish but the fish with which he swims, the water, the pool. I love you, you light me, warm me, you are suns. You have never spoken before.

He mouths a sentence as curs mouth a bone.

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.

Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.

It's not what enters men's mouth that is evil," said the alchemist. It's what comes out of their mouths that is.

I act as the tongue of you, ... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened.

Speech is an old torn net, through which the fish escape as one casts it over them.

Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.

Speech is civilization itself.

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words.

Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.

Language is wine upon the lips.

Man can no more think without words than see without light.

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

I think there are some people for whom words are like food.

People that want to talk can talk. Even a parrot talks. People are always going to have their thoughts on what they're going to say.

If you're ever struggling for something to say, just take a noun and verbalize it. Using simple words in new and interesting ways will creativize your presence.

After my recent brush with voicelessness, I thought I'd share with you a few thoughts about speech. Don't take it lightly my friends. If music is the pathway to the heart as Voltaire suggested, then speech is the pathway to other people. Live in silence and you live alone.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.