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“Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish I make more often.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Not content with real sufferings, the anxious man imposes imaginary ones on himself; he is a being for whom unreality exists, must exist; otherwise where would he obtain the ration of torment his nature demands?”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The more you are a victim of contradictory impulses, the less you know which to yield to. To lack character - precisely that and nothing more.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Get hold of yourself, be confident once more, don't forget that it is not given to just anyone to have idolized discouragement without succumbing to it.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“A harmonious being cannot believe in God. Saints, criminals, and paupers have launched him, making him available to all unhappy people.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To detach yourself elegantly from the world; to give contour and grace to sadness; a solitude in style; a walk that gives cadence to memories; stepping towards the intangible; with the breath in the trembling margins of things; the past reborn in the overflow of fragrances; the smell, through which we conquer time; the contour of the invisible things; the forms of the immaterial; to deepen yourself in the intangible; to touch the world airborne by smell; aerial dialogue and gliding dissolution; to bathe in your own reflecting fragmentation…”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Nothing is a better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“It is not by genius, it is by suffering, and suffering alone, that one ceases to be a marionette.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“When you love someone, you hope — the more closely to be attached — that a catastrophe will strike your beloved.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Though we may prefer ourselves to the universe, we nonetheless loathe ourselves much more than we suspect. If the wise man is so rare a phenomenon, it is because he seems unshaken by the aversion which, like all beings, he must feel for himself.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Everyone must destroy their life. According to the way they do it, they're either triumphants or failures.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action — mother of all vices — I am the cause of no one's suffering.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Anxiety — or the fanaticism of the worst.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name — and moving on.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)