To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 2021
Tag: Emil Cioran
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
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emil Cioran
2016
“The real women are those whose presence makes you forget about problems, ideas, universal anxieties and metaphysical torment.”
Emil Cioran
2020
“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
“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death’s prisoner.”
Emil Cioran
2019
“For two thousand years, Jesus has revenged himself on us for not having died on a sofa.”
Emil Cioran
2018
