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“When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

God , Sun

“Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Impossible to accede to truth by opinions, for each opinion is only a mad perspective of reality.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Truth , Reality , Madness

“I feel effective, competent, likely to do something positive only when I lie down and abandon myself to an interrogation without object or end.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Lie , Feeling

“If I were to go blind, what would bother me the most would be no longer to be able to stare idiotically at the passing clouds.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Way , Reality

“When you get over an infatuation, to fall for someone ever again seems so inconceivable that you imagine no one, not even a bug, that is not mired in disappointment.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Disappointment , Imagination

“Never unreal, Pain is a challenge to the universal fiction. What luck to be the only sensation granted a content, if not a meaning!”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Pain , Universe

“To think we could have spared ourselves from living all that we have lived!”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Thinking

“To dream of an enterprise of demolition that would spare none of the traces of the original Big Bang.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Dreams

“In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Sleep , Time

“Existing is plagiarism.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“What is not heartrending is superfluous, at least in music.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

Music

“We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Truth , Suffering , Falseness

“What I know wreaks havoc upon what I want.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Impossible for me to know whether or not I take myself seriously. The drama of detachment is that we cannot measure its progress. We advance into a desert, and we never know where we are in it.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I want to proclaim a truth that would forever exile me from among the living. I know only the conditions but not the words that would allow me to formulate it.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Truth

“It is difficult, it is impossible to believe that the Good Lord—“Our Father”—had a hand in the scandal of creation. Everything suggests that He took no part in it, that it proceeds from a god without scruples, a feculent god. Goodness does not create, lacking imagination; it takes imagination to put together a world, however botched. At the very least, there must be a mixture of good and evil in order to produce an action or a work.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

God , World , Imagination , Evil

“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left…with a foolish grin.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Thinking

“The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with the very rare intellectual tragedies.”

Emil M. Cioran

The tension, the degree and level of intensity of a thought proceeds from its internal antinomies, which in turn are derived from the unsolvable contradictions of a soul. Thought cannot solve the contradictions of the soul. As far as linear thinking is concerned, thoughts mirror themselves in other thoughts, instead of mirroring a destiny.
The Book of Delusions (1936)

Life