Old age, after all, is merely the punishment for having lived. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. Emile M. Cioran futility-of-life decision life-is Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. Emile M. Cioran dread fear inspire How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void. Emile M. Cioran void throwing infinite The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. Emile M. Cioran curtains mask ghost Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act. Emile M. Cioran practice sex needs Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the appearance of reality. The passage from logic is consummated. Thus are born ideologies, doctrines, and bloody farce. Emile M. Cioran passion men reality 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 decided ends enemy 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 degradation mind history Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide. Emile M. Cioran powerful tears prayer To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. Emile M. Cioran rejection accepting violence The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla. Emile M. Cioran gorillas novelty needs How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. Emile M. Cioran flaws self easy I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies. Emile M. Cioran mets mind interesting 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 have-faith matter way Normal people have nothing to forget. Emile M. Cioran normal forget people Democracy: a festival of mediocrity. Emile M. Cioran cynical mediocrity democracy If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. Emile M. Cioran spots ifs By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? Emile M. Cioran aberration normal suicide The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. Emile M. Cioran plies intimacy mind The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. Emile M. Cioran deeper ego trying
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