“There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.”
Drawn and Quartered (1983)
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Emil M. Cioran 531
Romanian philosopher and essayist 1911–1995Related quotes
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“If I can rejoice for a moment,
Death at an early age would still be a long life.”
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“The thing we long for, that we are
For one transcendent moment.”
Longing
Source: The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (1877), IV
Context: They had no temples, but they had a real living and uninterrupted sense of oneness with the whole of the universe; they had no creed, but they had a certain knowledge that when their earthly joy had reached the limits of earthly nature, then there would come for them, for the living and for the dead, a still greater fullness of contact with the whole of the universe. They looked forward to that moment with joy, but without haste, not pining for it, but seeming to have a foretaste of it in their hearts, of which they talked to one another.
