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Emile M. Cioran quotes

Romanian Philosopher April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995

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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 from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness. Emile M. Cioran
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. Emile M. Cioran
Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women. Emile M. Cioran
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. Emile M. Cioran
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony without an ending. The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. If History had a goal, how lamentable would be the fate of those of us who have accomplished nothing! On the frontiers of the self: ‘What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not... Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the..."
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "All that is Life in me urges me to give up God."
All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. Emile M. Cioran
We tell our troubles to someone only to make him suffer, to make him assume them for himself. If we wanted to win him over, we would admit none but abstract worries, the only kind those who love us are eager to hear. Emile M. Cioran
Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to..."
Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Emile M. Cioran
For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the..."
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination..."
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emile M. Cioran
To grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready to sacrifice himself to defend them, and they collapse under the first blows perpetrated upon them. This is even more true of nations in general. Once they begin to hold life sacred, it abandons them, it ceases to be on their side. Emile M. Cioran
It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste for maladies and hunger for depravities. One only troubles oneself with saints because one has been disappointed by the paradoxes of earthly life; one therefore searches out other paradoxes, more outlandish in guise, redolent of unknown truths, unknown perfumes... Emile M. Cioran

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