Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ✨ Emile M. Cio…

Emile M. Cioran
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1976). The Trouble with Being Born, Viking Books
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1999). All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms, p.21, Arcade Publishing
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and … ▶

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ✨ Emile M. Cioran (1975). A short history of decay, Viking Books

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