Emil Cioran Quotes
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I don't need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.
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If someone incessantly drops the word 'life,' you know he's a sick man.
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Who does not believe in Fate proves that he has not lived.
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How can you know if you are in the truth? The criterion is simple enough: if others make a vacuum around you, there is not a doubt in the world that you are closer to the essential than they are.
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Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all.
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Hope is the normal form of delirium.
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To think that so many have succeeded in dying!
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Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection.
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The universal view melts things into a blur.
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Born in a prison, with burdens on our shoulders and our thoughts, we could not reach the end of a single day if the possibilities of ending it all did not incite us to begin the next day all over again.
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A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints.
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To resign oneself or to blow out one's brains, that is the choice one faces at certain moments. In any case, the only real dignity is that of exclusion.
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The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
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Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
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I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.
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One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.
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Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.
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History proves nothing because it contains everything.
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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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 negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
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Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?
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There is no false sensation.
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In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left...with a foolish grin.