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
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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
“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
Parallel Aesthetics 