
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emil Cioran
2023

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emil Cioran
2023

Dead of night. No one, nothing but the society of the moments. Each pretends to keep us company, then escapes — desertion after desertion.
Emil Cioran
2023

The universal view melts things into a blur.
Emil Cioran
2023

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.
Emil Cioran
2022

Reality is a creation of our excesses.
Emil Cioran
2022

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.
Emil Cioran
2022

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