“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”
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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
“To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”
“Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.”
“Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”
“Under each formula lies a corpse.”
Source: A short history of decay
“We are born to exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
“We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.”
“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Woes and wonders of power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: A short history of decay
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.”
“I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.”
“Society: an inferno of saviors!”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“Reality is a creation of our excesses.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.”
Source: A short history of decay
Source: A short history of decay
Source: A short history of decay
“The universal view melts things into a blur.”
Source: A short history of decay
“Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.”
Source: A short history of decay
“If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
“To hope is to contradict the future.”
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms
Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms