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“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“One of the biggest paradoxes of our world: memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts…”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The sphere of consciousness shrinks in action; no one who acts can lay claim to the universal, for to act is to cling to the properties of being at the expense of being itself, to form a reality to reality's detriment.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“Heroes abound at the dawn of civilizations, during pre-Homeric and Gothic epochs, when people, not having yet experienced spiritual torture, satisfy their thirst for renunciation through a derivative: heroism.”

Emil M. Cioran

Tears and Saints (1937)

“To make more plans than an explorer or a crook, yet to be infected at the will's very root.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“If we would regain our freedom, we must shake off the burden of sensation, no longer react to the world by our senses, break our bonds. For all sensation is a bond, pleasure as much as pain, joy as much as misery. The only free mind is the one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The flesh spreads, further and further, like a gangrene upon the surface of the globe. It cannot impose limits upon itself, it continues to be rife despite its rebuffs, it takes its defeats for conquests, it has never learned anything. It belongs above all to the realm of the Creator, and it is indeed in the flesh that He has projected His maleficent instincts.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“Psychoanalysis will be entirely discredited one of these days, no doubt about it. Which will not keep it from destroying our last vestiges of naivete. After psychoanalysis, we can never again be innocent.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)