The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.


E. M. Forster

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Sleep - Death without dying - living, but not life.
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All Life death does end and each day dies with sleep
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Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.
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Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.
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If birth is one end of the life, death is not the another end - Not living is!
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Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever.
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In the room full of individuals for whom I hold feelings of resentment about,
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There is a moment of birth, of living and of death in any hope.
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Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
E. M. CIORAN
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances,...
E. M. CIORAN
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
E. M. CIORAN
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose atte...
E. M. CIORAN
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi...
E. M. CIORAN
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ours...
E. M. CIORAN
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- ...
E. M. CIORAN
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
E. M. CIORAN
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
E. M. CIORAN
Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist --a demo...
E. M. CIORAN
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
E. M. CIORAN
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are ...
E. M. CIORAN
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
E. M. CIORAN
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, th...
E. M. CIORAN
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than...
E. M. CIORAN
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.
E. M. CIORAN
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
E. M. CIORAN
To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.
E. M. CIORAN
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
E. M. CIORAN
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
E. M. CIORAN
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
E. M. CIORAN
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone wo...
E. M. CIORAN
The difference between a boss and a leader: a boss says, 'Go!' -a leader says, 'Let's go!'.
E. M. KELLY
Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.
E. M. CIORAN
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with o...
E. M. CIORAN
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal the...
E. M. CIORAN
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for on...
E. M. CIORAN
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encount...
E. M. CIORAN
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther...
E. M. CIORAN
Earnestness is good and impressive: genius is gifted and great. Thought kindles and inspires, but it...
E. M. BOUNDS
Prayer is the creator as well as the channel of devotion. The spirit of devotion is the spirit of pr...
E. M. BOUNDS
We love orthodoxy. It is good. It is the best. It is the clean, clear cut teaching of God's Word, th...
E. M. BOUNDS
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
E. M. CIORAN
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
E. M. CIORAN