Emil M. Cioran Quotes

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“I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations.”

“My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.”

“It is debasing to die the way one does; it is intolerable to be exposed to an end over which we have no control, an end which lies in wait for us, overthrows us, casts us into the unnameable. ”

“We should, out of decency, choose for ourselves the moment to disappear.”

“Why don't I commit suicide? Because I am as sick of death as I am of life.”

“I admire only two types of people: the potentially mad and the potential suicide.”

“Maybe suffering has no more justification than life.”

“There is only this swarm of dying creatures stricken with longevity, all the more hateful in that they are so good at organizing their agony.”

“At the edge of life you feel that you are no longer master of the life within you, that subjectivity is an illusion, and that uncontrollable forces are seething inside you, evolving with no relation to a personal center or a definite, individual rhythm.”