„We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Quotes from bookThe Trouble With Being Born
Emil M. CioranOriginal title De l'inconvénient d'être né (French)
„Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, "What's your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act."“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
And they do calm down.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„"Do I look like someone who has something to do here on Earth?" - That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„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
„To have committed every crime but that of being a father.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„It is trifling to believe in what you do or in what others do. You should avoid simulacra and even "realities"; you should take up a position external to everything and everyone, drive off or grind down your appetites, live, according to a Hindu adage, with as few desires as a "solitary elephant.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„I react like everyone else, even like those I most despise; but I make up for it by deploring every action I commit, good or bad.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„There is no false sensation.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
„One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
„The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.“
— Emil M. Cioran, book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
