Emile M. CioranEach of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history … ▶371HumanityReading
Emile M. CioranNo one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.362Sadness
Emile M. CioranSkepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.373ReadingSadness
Emile M. CioranOnly 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?374Death
Emile M. CioranWhat can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.374ReadingTruth
Emile M. CioranEach of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. … ▶341Reading
Emile M. CioranShame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. ✨ Simone de Beauvoir and Emil Cioran: Blackstar 10/1/16. Interview with Simo… ▶341HopeLife
Emile M. CioranWoes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. ✨ History and Utopia. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1960.374PoliticsReading
Emile M. CioranThe desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1999). All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms, p.74, Arc… ▶341Death
Emile M. CioranPhilosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. ✨ Ecartelement (Drawn and Quartered). Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1983.341ReadingThought
Emile M. CioranIt is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books374Reading
Emile M. CioranIf we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books341Reading
Emile M. CioranI do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books353Reading
Emile M. CioranTo live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.375Politics
Emile M. CioranWhat is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures? ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books364Reading
Emile M. CioranThe 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 li… ▶343ReadingTime
Emile M. CioranTo read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. ✨ Anathemas and Admirations. Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.354Reading
Emile M. CioranA self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime. ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.321Reading
Emile M. CioranWe must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books343ReadingTime
Emile M. CioranI have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books321HumanityReading
Emile M. CioranHe who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1970). The fall into time, Crown343HumanityTime
Emile M. CioranFreedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. ✨ History and Utopia. Book… ▶343PoliticsReading
Emile M. CioranWhere are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations? ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with … ▶332Reading
Emile M. CioranAlone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even… ▶343HopeTime
Emile M. CioranTears do not burn except in solitude. ✨ On the Heights of Despair. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.376Reading
Emile M. CioranFar from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books321PoliticsReading
Emile M. CioranThe fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (… ▶332ReadingThought
Emile M. CioranMy mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.354Time
Emile M. CioranMelancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. ✨ Anathemas and Admirations. Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.311Reading
Emile M. CioranBy what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? ✨ Drawn and Quartered. Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.366PoliticsReading
