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Emile M. Cioran quotes about time

Romanian Philosopher April 8, 1911 – June 20, 1995

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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
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
When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down. Emile M. Cioran
Meditate but one hour upon the self’s nonexistence and you will feel yourself to be another man,” said a priest of the Japanese Kusha sect to a Western visitor. Without having frequented the Buddhist monasteries, how many times have I not lingered over the world’s unreality, and hence my own? I have not become another man for that, no, but there certainly has remained with me the feeling that my identity is entirely illusory, and that by losing it I have lost nothing, except something,... 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
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. Emile M. Cioran
Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being—at my expense. Emile M. Cioran
The apprenticeship to passivity—I know nothing more contrary to our habits. (The modern age begins with two hysterics: Don Quixote and Luther.) If we make time, produce and elaborate it, we do so out of our repugnance to the hegemony of essence and to the contemplative submission it presupposes. Taoism seems to me wisdom’s first and last word: yet I resist it, my instincts reject it, as they refuse to endure anything—the heredity of revolt is too much for us. Our disease? Centuries of... Emile M. Cioran
Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals a pleasure principle, and she intends to profit by it. Abandonment enchants and fulfills her. Time continues to pass? She is not at all alarmed; let others bother about time; it is their business: they do not guess what relief there can be in wallowing in a present that leads nowhere? Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who..."
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? Emile M. Cioran
If there was a common, even official form of killing oneself, suicide would be much easier and much more frequent. But since to be done with it all we must find our own way, we waste so much time meditating on trifles that we forget what is essential. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time."
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time. Emile M. Cioran
There was a time when time did not yet exist.? The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran quote: "My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn...."
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. Emile M. Cioran

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