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“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness.... I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory.... Let "desire" be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)
Variant: By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness... I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You shall be my sole glory... Let “desire” be forever stricken from the dictionary, and from the soul! I retreat before the dizzying farce of tomorrows. And if I still cling to a few hopes, I have lost forever the faculty of hoping.

“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and that I was falling with it at a speed that made me dizzy.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessor.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“To repeat to yourself a thousand times a day: 'Nothing on Earth has any worth,' to keep finding yourself at the same point, to circle stupidly as a top, eternally…”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego… Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; — for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.”

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Three in the morning. I realize this second, then this one, then the next: I draw up the balance sheet for each minute. And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“All that is Life in me urges me to give up God.”

Tears and Saints (1937)

“It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“To hope is to contradict the future.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The only thing the young should be taught is that there is virtually nothing to be hoped for from life. One dreams of a Catalogue of Disappointments which would include all the disillusionments reserved for each and every one of us, to be posted in the schools.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Truths begin by a conflict with the police — and end by calling them in.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Incredible that the prospect of having a biographer has made no one renounce having a life.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)