Emile M. Cioran Quotes

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• When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.

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  Men, Relief, Lasts

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

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• I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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  Suicide, Ideas, Dies

  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.69, Arcade Publishing

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• After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

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  Reality, Silence, Despair

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• My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Missions, Kill Me, Murderer

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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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• To hope is to contradict the future.

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  Emile M. Cioran (1999). “All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms”, p.83, Arcade Publishing

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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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• 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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• 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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• I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person

  Emile M. Cioran

  Country, Groups, Feels

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• If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

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  Spots, Ifs

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

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• Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.

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  Animal, Men, Kingdoms

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

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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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• Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

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  Stupid, Miracle, Disease

  Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, 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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• 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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• It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Too Late

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

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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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• 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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• Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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  Pain, Real, Suffering

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

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  Ideas, Way, Next

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

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