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Solitude: so fulfilling that the merest rendezvous is a crucifixion. — Emil Cioran

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything! — Emil Cioran

Extraordinary and null - these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all. — Emil Cioran

Tears do not burn except in solitude. — Emil M. Cioran

I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide ... — Emil Cioran

Men follow only those who give them illusions. There have never been gatherings around a disillusioned. — Emil Cioran

And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity? — Emil Cioran

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves. — Emil Cioran

The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen. — Emil Cioran

Beatitude through suffering is an illusion, since it requires a reconciliation to the fatality of pain in order to avoid total annihilation. — Emil M. Cioran

I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions. — Emil Cioran

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emil Cioran

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy. — Emil Cioran

To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing. — Emil Cioran

No one reads to know, but to forget — Emil M. Cioran

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. — Emil Cioran

The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame. — Emil M. Cioran

Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas. — Emil Cioran

Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object. — Emil M. Cioran

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself. — Emil Cioran

To have committed every crime but that of being a father. — Emil Cioran

We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emil Cioran

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. — Emil Cioran

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. — Emil Cioran

I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks. — Emil Cioran

Not to have been born, merely musing on that - what freedom, what space! — Emil Cioran

To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! — Emil Cioran

Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man. — Emil Cioran

Mystery - a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are. — Emil M. Cioran

One should live and die where one was born ... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu? — Emil Cioran

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods. — Emil Cioran

We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle. — Emil Cioran

Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life. — Emil Cioran

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? — Emil Cioran

Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are. — Emil Cioran

Agression is a trait common to men and new gods. — Emil Cioran

Any and all water is the color of drowning. — Emil M. Cioran

What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures? — Emil Cioran

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget. — Emil Cioran

We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures. — Emil Cioran

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. — Emil Cioran

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen. — Emil Cioran

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. — Emil Cioran

Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it? — Emil Cioran

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emil Cioran

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. — Emil Cioran

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both. — Emil Cioran

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse. — Emil Cioran

If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot. — Emil Cioran

Kill yourself because of what you are, yes, but not because all humanity would spit in your face! — Emil M. Cioran

We are all deep in a hell, each of which is a miracle. — Emil Cioran

Unmaking, decreating, is the only task man may take upon himself, if he aspires, as everything suggests, to distinguish himself from the Creator. — Emil Cioran

Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life. — Emil M. Cioran

In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping — Emil Cioran

I don't know how to make peace with things, were each moment to tear itself away from time to give me a kiss. — Emil Cioran

Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are. — Emil M. Cioran

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence. — Emil M. Cioran

Bluntly: my rebellion is a faith to which I subscribe without believing in it. — Emil Cioran

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory. — Emil Cioran

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. — Emil Cioran

All that is Life in me urges me to give up God. — Emil M. Cioran

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emil Cioran

A book should open old wounds, even inflict new ones. A book should be a danger. — Emil Cioran

What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears. — Emil Cioran

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think. — Emil Cioran

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast. — Emil M. Cioran

Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us — Emil M. Cioran

-To suffer is the great modality of taking the world seriously. — Emil Cioran

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Emil Cioran

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to. — Emil Cioran

A free man is one who has discerned the inanity of all points of view; a liberated man is one who has drawn the consequences of such discernment. — Emil M. Cioran

What misery a sensation is! Ecstasy itself, perhaps, is nothing more. — Emil Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live
moreover, the only one. — Emil Cioran

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. — Emil Cioran

My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more. — Emil M. Cioran

To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist. — Emil Cioran

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside. — Emil Cioran

The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God. — Emil Cioran

The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. — Emil Cioran

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone. — Emil M. Cioran

We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication. — Emil 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. — Emil Cioran

To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege. — Emil M. Cioran

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. — Emil M. Cioran

Our only choice is between irrespirable truths and salutary frauds. — Emil Cioran

Tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emil M. Cioran

We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage. — Emil Cioran

The lot of the man who has rebelled too much is to have no energy left except for disappointment. — Emil Cioran

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. — Emil Cioran

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession. — Emil Cioran

God does not read. — Emil M. Cioran

The pessimist has to invent new reasons to exist every day: he is a victim of the "meaning" of life. — Emil M. Cioran

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. — Emil Cioran

Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure. — Emil Cioran

In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos - there's a pillow! — Emil Cioran

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile. — Emil Cioran

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. — Emil Cioran

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! — Emil Cioran

My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now. — Emil Cioran

It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it! — Emil Cioran