Where concern is lost, memory fares likewise.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2025
Tag: Cioran
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emil Cioran
2018
One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
Emil Cioran
2025
Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2025
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher’s the poet’s equal there.
Emil Cioran
2024
So it is that after each night, facing a new day, the impossible necessity of dealing with it fills us with dread; exiled in light as if the world had just started, inventing the sun, we flee from tears—just one of which would be enough to wash us out of time.
Emil Cioran
2024
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
Arthur Schopenhauer
2023
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emil Cioran
Knowledge is the plague of life, and consciousness, an open wound in its heart.
Emil Cioran
Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emil Cioran
2024
Parallel Aesthetics 