Emil Cioran quotes - page 13

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain. (Emil Cioran)
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive. View quote
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Between the demand to be clear,and the temptation to be obscure, impossible to decide which deserves more respect. View quote
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However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice. View quote
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The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. View quote
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We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage. View quote
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. View quote
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Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic. View quote
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Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. View quote
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Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. View quote
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I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero. (Emil Cioran)
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison. View quote
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Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. View quote
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the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life. View quote
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy. View quote
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We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job. View quote
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The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. View quote
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A book is a suicide postponed. View quote
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One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. View quote
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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease! View quote
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do? (Emil Cioran)
Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence. View quote
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In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death. View quote
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There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another. View quote
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I thought that the only action a man could perform without shame was to take his life; that he had no right to diminish himself in the succession of days and the inertic of misery. No elect, I kept telling myself, but those who committed suicide. View quote
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