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Emile M. Cioran quotes about death

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
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
I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression..."
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. Emile M. Cioran
While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.” If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence. Emile M. Cioran
Whenever I happen to be in a city of any size, I marvel that riots do not break out everyday: Massacres, unspeakable carnage, a doomsday chaos. How can so many human beings coexist in a space so confined without hating each other to death? Emile M. Cioran
I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have..."
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an..."
If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action. Emile M. Cioran

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