Of all that was attempted this side of nothingness, is anything more pathetic than this world, except for the idea which conceived it?
Quotes from Emil Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or less agrees that it is so. Then why celebrate or denigrate? Because to exist is to evaluate, to emit judgments, and because abstention, when it is not the effect of apathy or cowardice, requires an effort no one manages to make.
Ambition is a drug that turns it’s addicts into potential madmen.
Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.
The contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
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