Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. Emile M. Cioran rivals philosophical love-is Pursued by our origins... we all are. Emile M. Cioran pursued I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero. Emile M. Cioran intention zero struggle Read day and night, devour books - these sleeping pills - not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions. Emile M. Cioran sleep night book Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no more authority than a hypothesis. Emile M. Cioran void belief law An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. Emile M. Cioran flames fire trying In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. Emile M. Cioran tyrants stuff order Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. Emile M. Cioran abuse possession liberty One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world. Emile M. Cioran lonely loneliness two The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. Emile M. Cioran voice solitude doe History proves nothing because it contains everything. Emile M. Cioran prove history Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it. Emile M. Cioran mad crazy should The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. Emile M. Cioran insomnia sleep animal What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! Emile M. Cioran tunes insomnia night Glory - once achieved, what is it worth? Emile M. Cioran glory Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions. Emile M. Cioran diversity light insomnia To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. Emile M. Cioran recycling dying want Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me. Emile M. Cioran failing cheating thinking Basis of society: anonymous sweat. Emile M. Cioran bases sweat Try to be free: you will die of hunger. Emile M. Cioran hunger dies trying
