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From Quotes by Emile M. Cioran
- No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
- The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
- Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
- Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
- The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
- We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
- When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
- No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far…
- The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because it identifies with…
- Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality.…
- Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but…
- This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do…
- Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
- Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.
- Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more to ourselves and…
- Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.
- I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
- Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our…
- I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to…
- I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without…
- The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed…
- I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better…
- As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I…
- Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a…
- What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.
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