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“All morning, I did nothing but repeat: "Man is an abyss, man is an abyss." - I could not, alas, find anything better.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“To suffer is to produce knowledge.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“The skeptic is the least mysterious man in the world, and yet, starting from a certain moment, he no longer belongs to this world.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“There are questions which, once approached, either isolate you or kill you outright.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The skepticism which fails to contribute to the ruin of our health is merely an intellectual exercise.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“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. ––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.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“No one should try to live if he has not completed his training as a victim.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The Creation was the first act of sabotage.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland — and no other.”

Emil M. Cioran

Variant translation: We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“Haven't people learned yet that the time of superficial intellectual games is over, that agony is infinitely more important than syllogism, that a cry of despair is more revealing than the most subtle thought, and that tears always have deeper roots than smiles?”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“"You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Erect I make a resolution; prone I revoke it.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“If to describe a misery were as easy to live through it!”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“To think that so many have succeeded in dying!”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“To resign oneself or to blow out one's brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)