Quotes from bookA Short History of Decay
“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Society: an inferno of saviors!”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula… to give a facade to the void.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“To Live signifies to believe and hope — to lie and to lie to oneself.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
Source: A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
“I dream of wanting — and all I want seems to me worthless.”
Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay
A Short History of Decay (1949)
