Emil Cioran Quotes
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If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.
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The world begins and ends with us. Only our consciousness exists, it is everything, and this everything vanishes with it. Dying, we leave nothing. Then why so much fuss around an event that is no such thing?
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We are all secularised anarchists today.
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The state of health is a state of nonsensation, even of nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.
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The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.
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'I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.' This remark of a mental patient weighs more heavily than a whole stack of works on introspection.
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It has been a long time since philosophers have read men’s souls. It is not their task, we are told. Perhaps. But we must not be surprised if they no longer matter much to us.
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
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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.
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To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?
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To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing
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Two enemies - the same man divided.
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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
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If someone incessantly drops the word 'life,' you know he's a sick man.
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
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Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?
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It makes no sense to say that death is the goal of life, but what else is there to say?
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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What an incitation to hilarity, hearing the word goal while following a funeral procession!
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Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.
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Philosophy: impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
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As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.