Emil Cioran Quotes
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'What do you do from morning to night?' 'I endure myself.'
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To think that so many have succeeded in dying!
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The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
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My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly the contrary of a mission.
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Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
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Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.
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Hope is the normal form of delirium.
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There is an innate anxiety which supplants in us both knowledge and intuition.
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To be or not to be...Neither one nor the other.
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I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
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To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.
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In relation to any act of life, the mind acts as a killjoy.
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Sadness makes you God's prisoner.
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Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
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What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
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We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
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Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?
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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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Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
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Objection to scientific knowledge: this world doesn't deserve to be known.
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Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
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I'd rather offer my life as a sacrifice than be necessary to anything.