
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran
2021
History proves nothing because it contains everything.
Emil Cioran
2021
Facing a landscape annihilated by the light, to remain serene supposes a temper I do not have. The sun is my purveyor of black thoughts; and summer the season when I have always reconsidered my relations with this world and with myself, to the greatest prejudice of both.
Emil Cioran
2022
As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad. Emil Cioran
2022
To think many have succeeded in dying.
Emil Cioran
2021
Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don’t know, and we don’t really care either. Since nothing has real substance, and life is a twirl in the void, its beginning and its end are meaningless.
Emil Cioran
2021
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
Emil Cioran
2021
To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I’d welcome the plague as a blessing.
Emil Cioran
2015 edited 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
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emil Cioran
2016