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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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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes

“Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”

Knows Way Book Night Sleep Forget Illusion Pills Day And Night Spleen Sleeping Pills

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”

Way Matter Achieve Cry Silent Have Faith

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

World Way Two Feelings Loneliness Lonely Two Ways Feeling Lonely

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.”

Way Needs Feels Real Pain Suffering Constant Imaginary

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.”

Ifs Way Ideas Next Succeed Victim Surprise Endure Disaster Superiors Invincible

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.”

Ifs Way Art Artist Easy Realizing Impossible Cease Exhaustion Paralysis Anomalies

Book:The Trouble with Being Born

Source: The Trouble with Being Born

“What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.”

Way Said Reality Failing

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.”

Thinking Way Needs Giving Feels Should Stills Answers Music Meditation Limits Profound Musical Philosopher Theme Thinker Pursued

Author:Emile M. Cioran

“Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.”

Way Self Life Is Illusion Conscious Absolutes Saved Best Way Substance Rejection Self Conscious

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

The fall into timeRelated source material

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