To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 2021
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There exists in the world a single path along which no one can go except you: whither does it lead? Do not ask, go along it.
Friedrich Nietzsche
2021
How I wish I didn’t know anything about myself and this world!
Emil Cioran
Undated
As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.
Emil Cioran
2021
“The real women are those whose presence makes you forget about problems, ideas, universal anxieties and metaphysical torment.”
Emil Cioran
2020
“I don’t need any support, advice, or compassion, because even if I am the most ruinous man, I still feel so powerful, so strong and fierce. For I am the only one that lives without hope.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“The Harshness of the world can only be met with hardness, not be trickery.”
Ernst Jünger
2018
“One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be – though possibly a coloured canvas and a sheet of notes will remain – because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone.”
Oswald Spengler
2019
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
Emil Cioran
2018
“The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.”
Emil Cioran
2018
