People say, “Artist, study nature!” But it is no small matter to develop what is noble out of what is common, beauty out of what lacks form.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
2020
Tag: Pessimism
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
“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
“I love to dream, but I never try to dream and think at the same time.”
H.P. Lovecraft
2015
“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
“One of the greatest delusions of the average man is to forget that life is death’s prisoner.”
Emil Cioran
2019
Parallel Aesthetics 