“The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.” HistorySadnessDespairMiseryWrong Author:Emil Cioran
“Despair is the state in which anxiety and restlessness are immanent to existence. Nobody in despair suffers from “problems”, but from his own inner torment and fire. It’s a pity that nothing can be solved in this world. Yet there never was and there never will be anyone who would commit suicide for this reason. So much for the power that intellectual anxiety has over the total anxiety of our being! That is why I prefer the dramatic life, consumed by inner fires and tortured by destiny, to the intellectual, caught up in abstractions which do not engage the essence of our subjectivity. I despise the absence of risks, madness and passion in abstract thinking. How fertile live, passionate thinking is! Lyricism feeds it like blood pumped into the heart!” DespairAnxietyCioranLyricism Book:On the Heights of Despair Source: On the Heights of Despair
“The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.” ConsciousnessDespairSuicideCioran Book:On the Heights of Despair Source: On the Heights of Despair
“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.” LifeJoyDespairSickness Author:Emil Cioran