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“If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we consider happy any being, friend or enemy, who has ceased to live?”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“"Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt." - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime…”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Awareness of time: assault on time...”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Compared to the refined culture of sclerotic forms and frames, which mask everything, the lyrical mode is utterly barbarian in its expression. Its value resides precisely in its savage quality: it is only blood, sincerity, and fire.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“If there was a God of sorrow, he would grow black heavy wings, to soar not for the skies, but for inferno.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be known.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“The universal view melts things into a blur.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual tension or nervous depression to empty abstraction.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Sadness makes you God's prisoner.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Great joys, why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)