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“The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“No one has the audacity to exclaim: “I don’t want to do anything!” —we are more indulgent with a murderer than with a mind emancipated from actions.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust; they resign themselves to the difficulties or the doltishness of fate; they hope: hope is a slave's virtue.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“If someone incessantly drops the word "life," you know he's a sick man.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Two enemies — the same man divided.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“What anxiety when one is not sure of one's doubts or wonders: are these actually doubts?”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Hope is the normal form of delirium.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Thanks to depression — that alpinism of the indolent — we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I anticipated witnessing in my lifetime the disappearance of our species. But the Gods have been against me.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“"Where do you get those superior airs of yours?" "I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn?"”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)