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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.


Emil M. Cioran

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EMILE M. CIORAN Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you...
EMILE M. CIORAN We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
EMILE M. CIORAN A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more effic...
EMILE M. CIORAN No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
EMILE M. CIORAN Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
EMILE M. CIORAN The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
EMILE M. CIORAN In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
EMILE M. CIORAN For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
EMILE M. CIORAN The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
EMILE M. CIORAN Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
EMILE M. CIORAN A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
EMILE M. CIORAN The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous...
EMILE M. CIORAN The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
EMILE M. CIORAN We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
EMILE M. CIORAN Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
EMILE M. CIORAN Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so...
EMILE M. CIORAN When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
EMILE M. CIORAN Not to be obliged, like so many others, to choose between the insipid and the atrocious.
EMILE M. CIORAN To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by t...
EMILE M. CIORAN Pursued by our origins... we all are.
EMILE M. CIORAN If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
EMILE M. CIORAN Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untain...
EMILE M. CIORAN Under each formula lies a corpse.
EMILE M. CIORAN You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: i...
EMILE M. CIORAN Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
EMILE M. CIORAN