Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
sad misery melancholy
Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.
melancholy universe
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
melancholy ancient symbols
Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
suicide world melancholy
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
world melancholy ends
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
soul sadism skepticism
Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
people normal forget
Normal people have nothing to forget.
speaks
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.
fear history result ultimately
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
freedom merely
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
reality silence despair
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.
powerful blow brain
Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.
goal weak states
To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.