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“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“When you know quite absolutely that everything is unreal, you then cannot see why you should take the trouble to prove it.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Except for music, everything is a lie, even solitude, even ecstasy. Music, in fact, is the one and the other, only better.”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“In order to conceive, and to steep ourselves in, unreality, we must have it constantly present to our minds. The day we feel it, see it, everything becomes unreal, except that unreality which alone makes existence tolerable.”

Emil M. Cioran

The New Gods (1969)

“The world begins and ends with us. Only our consciousness exists, it is everything, and this everything vanishes with it. Dying, we leave nothing. Then why so much fuss around an event that is no such thing?”

Emil M. Cioran

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose, dying. Everything.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique — and insignificant.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

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

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“The mind that puts everything in question, reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in fact, knows from the start, by instinct. For what is inertia but a congenital perplexity?”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Without God, everything is nothingness; and with God? Supreme nothingness.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“When I happen to be satisfied with everything, even God and myself, I immediately react like the man who, on a brilliant day, torments himself because the sun is bound to explode in a few billion years.”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The moment we believe we've understood everything grants us the look of a murderer.”

Emil M. Cioran

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?”

Emil M. Cioran

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

Emil M. Cioran

The Book of Delusions (1936)

“I am displeased with everything. If they made me God, I would immediately resign.”

Emil M. Cioran

On the Heights of Despair (1934)

“I pride myself on my capacity to perceive the transitory character of everything. An odd gift which has spoiled all my joys; better: all my sensations.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“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.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)