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Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both."

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities."

Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life."

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Our first intuitions are the true ones."

Our first intuitions are the true ones.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself."

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one."

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words."

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous."

The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?"

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself."

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell."

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy."

Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.




Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls."

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "We change ideas like neckties."

We change ideas like neckties.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth."

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui."

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy."

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all."

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other."

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla."

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart."

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love."

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach."

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws."

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost."

The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable."

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws."

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one."

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "To accomplish nothing and die of the strain"

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Democracy: a festival of mediocrity."

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself."

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence."

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false"

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies."

I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him."

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent."

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves."

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person"

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "No one can enjoy freedom without trembling."

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Normal people have nothing to forget."

Normal people have nothing to forget.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them."

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot."

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity."

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves."

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone."

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown."

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!"

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?"

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?



Emile M. Cioran Quotes: "Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire."

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.