Emil Cioran quotes - page 18

I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world. (Emil Cioran)
Try as I will, I don't see what might exist... View quote
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To try curing someone of a "vice," of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his. View quote
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If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action. View quote
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If I were asked to summarize as briefly as possible my vision of things, to reduce it to its most succinct expression, I should replace words with an exclamation point, a definitive! View quote
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The mind advances only when it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen. View quote
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Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being. View quote
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An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm. View quote
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I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool. View quote
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Hope is the normal form of delirium. View quote
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Thanks to depression - that alpinism of the indolent - we scale every summit and daydream over every precipice from our bed. (Emil Cioran)
Where do you get those superior airs of yours?" "I've managed to survive, you see, all those nights when I wondered: am I going to kill myself at dawn? View quote
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Nothing is indefensible - from the absurdest proposition to the most monstrous crime. View quote
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We always love... despite; and that "despite" covers an infinity. View quote
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To be is to be cornered. View quote
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The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed are those who suffer from it, who are a prey to questioning, and who can accept no given because they were born in consternation.. View quote
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When we are young, we take a certain pleasure in our infirmities. They seem so new, so rich! With age, they no longer surprise us, we know them too well. Now, without anything unexpected in them, they do not deserve to be endured.. View quote
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I am enraptured by Hindu philosophy, whose essential endeavor is to surmount the self; and everything I do, everything I think is only myself and the selfs humiliations. View quote
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My faculty for disappointment surpasses understanding. It is what lets me comprehend Buddha, but also what keeps me from following him.. View quote
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We should, out of decency, choose for ourselves the moment to disappear. View quote
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There is only this swarm of dying creatures stricken with longevity, all the more hateful in that they are so good at organizing their agony. (Emil Cioran)
maybe suffering has no more justification than life. View quote
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Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood - all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you. View quote
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Great joys, why do they bring us sadness? Because there remains from these excesses only a feeling of irrevocable loss and desertion which reaches a high degree of negative intensity. At such moments, instead of a gain, one keenly feels loss. sadness accompanies all those events in which life expends itself. its intensity is equal to its loss. Thus death causes the greatest sadness. View quote
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That fear which gives birth to thoughts, and the fear of thoughts... View quote
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