The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy? Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside. Emile M. Cioran puppetseyebroken Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. Emile M. Cioran appetiteirritatedruins Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself. Emile M. Cioran symbolsancientmelancholy Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have. Emile M. Cioran detailsflowsuffering Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. Emile M. Cioran daggersconsciousnessflesh The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. Emile M. Cioran misanthropyborderskind Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy! Emile M. Cioran sadnessphilosophybelieve To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives. Emile M. Cioran effortcostable A book is a suicide postponed. Emile M. Cioran suicidebook Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret. Emile M. Cioran disguiseteachsecret In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do without it, that we have found something better, and we also attach ourselves to God in horror of men. Emile M. Cioran revengemenorder We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. Emile M. Cioran lonelylonelinessdying Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world. Emile M. Cioran melancholyendsworld To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference! Emile M. Cioran indifferencealiensclaims The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. Emile M. Cioran lonelinesssufferingmen What are you waiting for in order to give up? Emile M. Cioran giving-upgivingorder No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. Emile M. Cioran griefusegrieving To act is to anchor in the imminent future. Emile M. Cioran anchors I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them. Emile M. Cioran grantedworktrying Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise. Emile M. Cioran paradisemomentsconscious
