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“On the frontiers of the self: "What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I."”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Suffering

“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

Study

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Context: Everything is possible, and yet nothing is. All is permitted, and yet again, nothing. No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it’s all the same whether you cry or remain silent. There is an explanation for everything, and yet there is none. Everything is both real and unreal, normal and absurd, splendid and insipid. There is nothing worth more than anything else, nor any idea better than any other. Why grow sad from one’s sadness and delight in one’s joy? What does it matter whether our tears come from pleasure or pain? Love your unhappiness and hate your happiness, mix everything up, scramble it all! Be a snowflake dancing in the air, a flower floating downstream! Have courage when you don’t need to, and be a coward when you must be brave! Who knows? You may still be a winner! And if you lose, does it really matter? Is there anything to win in this world? All gain is loss, all loss is gain. Why always expect a definite stance, clear ideas, meaningful words? I feel as if I should spout fire in response to all the questions which were ever put, or not put, to me.

Faith , Way , Cry

“We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

Hell

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Read day and night, devour books — these sleeping pills — not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: Tears and Saints (1937)

Books , Way , History , Sleep

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

World

“Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.”

Emil M. Cioran

Variant: Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.
Source: Tears and Saints (1937)

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

People , Suicide , Time

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

Emil M. Cioran

“"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”

Emil M. Cioran
Happiness

“True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

World , Tear

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Life , Loneliness

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Life , Sincerity

“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)

Solitude , Tear

“How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

Truth , World

“Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

Suicide

“We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented — we're born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt — tone is more than talent, it is its essence.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)