Emil M. Cioran: Trending quotes (page 8)

“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”

“We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.”

“To accomplish nothing and die of the strain”

“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”

“I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.”

“To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!”

“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”

“As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.”

“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”

“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”

“A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.”

“Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.”

“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.”

“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”

“He detested objective truths, the burden of argument, sustained reasoning. He disliked demonstrating, he wanted to convince no one. Others are a dialectician's invention.”

“I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless.”

“Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.”

“When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment's thought to the "meaning" of anything, particularly of whatever it is I am doing. A proof that the secret of everything is in action and not abstention, that fatal cause of consciousness.”