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Emile M. Cioran was a Romanian-born French philosopher known for his pessimistic and existentialist views. His works deeply explored the essence of human existence, suffering, and nihilism.

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“You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.”

Ifs Solitude Protect

Book:All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

Source: All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms

“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”

Tears Solitude

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”

Ifs World Moments Light Asks Principles Solitude Nothingness Smile Love

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.”

Inspirational Heart Real Problem Fear Solitude Temptation Unwilling Real Problems

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.”

Humans Doe Voice Solitude Surface Infinity Remorse Whispering

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.”

Born Sin Share Mankind Solitude Purity Commerce Predestined

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.”

Moments Heaven Love Is Attention Produce Tears Solitude Casts Variety Suspects Ecstasy Sublime Rivals Fatigue Transport Rapture Intoxication Physiology Ardor Glands Sublimity

Book:A short history of decay

Source: A short history of decay

“The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”

Mean Solitude Sole Those You Love

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.”

Ifs Company Solitude Waste Meetings Encounters Introvert Doing Nothing

Author:Emile M. Cioran

About the Author

Born: April 8, 1911
Died: June 20, 1995
Known for: Philosopher
Quotes: 372

Books & Sources

The Trouble with Being BornRelated source material

A short history of decayRelated source material

All Gall is Divided: Gnomes and ApothegmsRelated source material

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