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“One disgust, then another — to the point of losing the use of speech and even of the mind…The greatest exploit of my life is to be still alive.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“You have dreamed of setting the world ablaze, and you have not even managed to communicate your fire to words, to light up a single one!”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“"I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside." This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“It is unjust to call imaginary the diseases which are, on the contrary, only too real, since they proceed from our mind, the only regulator of our equilibrium and our health.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“This morning I thought, hence lost my bearings, for a good quarter of an hour.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Philosophy's error is to be too endurable.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“However intimate we may be with the operations of the mind, we cannot think more than two or three minutes a day; — unless, by taste or by profession, we practice, for hours on end, brutalizing words in order to extract ideas from them. The intellectual represents the major disgrace, the culminating failure of Homo sapiens.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live — moreover, the only one.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”

Emil M. Cioran

“Only those moments count when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than to exchange a word with someone.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: The New Gods (1969)

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”

Emil M. Cioran

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)