Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”
Source: On the Heights of Despair (1934)
Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”
Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
Emil M. Cioran livre History and Utopia
History and Utopia (1960)
On the Heights of Despair (1934)
“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”
Source: The Fall Into Time (1964), p. 178, first American edition (1970)
“The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.”
Emil M. Cioran livre De l'inconvénient d'être né
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.”
Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.”
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Emil M. Cioran livre A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)