Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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• No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

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  Have Faith, Matter, Way

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

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  Humanity, Causes, Adore

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• Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

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  Crazy, Mad, Should

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• Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived.

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  Punishment, Age, Old Age

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?

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  Girl, Philosophical, Fighting

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

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  Powerful, Blow, Brain

  "The New Gods". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1969.

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• The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

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  Demand, Hell, Protest

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emil Cioran, 1987.

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• Consciousness is nature's nightmare.

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  Nightmare, Consciousness

  "Tears and Saints". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.

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• What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

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  Morning, Night, Endure

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?

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  Suicide, Succeed, Reason

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• What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

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  Reality, Way, Failing

  "Drawn and Quartered". Book by Emil Cioran, 1983.

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• I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

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  Accidents

  "Simone de beauvoir and emil cioran: blackstar 10/1/16". 3:AM Magazine Interview, www.3ammagazine.com. January 16, 2016.

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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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  Life Sucks, Best Laid Plans, Hate Life

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

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  Secret, Teach, Disguise

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• What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

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  Years, Long, Twenties

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?

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  Dream, Ambition, Would Be

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

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  Being Yourself, Chaos, Chaos In The World

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

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  Cancer, Men, Tree

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• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence.

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  Real, Fall, Thinking

  "On the Heights of Despair". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1934.

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• By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

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  World, Evidence

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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• The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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  Meaning Of Life, Facts, Reason

  "Anathemas and Admirations". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1987.

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• Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

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  Cynical, Democracy, Mediocrity

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• The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

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  Mean, Solitude, Sole

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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  Self, Civilization, Advice

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• I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

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  Dust, Would Be, Flow

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