“Nothing surpasses the pleasures of idleness: even if the end of the world were to come, I would not leave my bed at an ungodly hour.”Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of DecayA Short History of Decay (1949)
“Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.”Emil M. Cioran Drawn and Quartered (1983)
“The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?”Emil M. Cioran All Gall Is Divided (1952)