Our first intuitions are the true ones. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. Emile M. Cioran evidence world The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims. Emile M. Cioran next way ideas It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. Emile M. Cioran suicidal suicide too-late How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a few tranquil lives and will unsettle the unconscious and pleasant naiveté of others. Although I feel that my tragedy is the greatest in history - greater than the fall of empires - I am nevertheless aware of my total insignificance. I am absolutely persuaded that I am nothing in this universe; yet I feel that mine is the only real existence. Emile M. Cioran real fall thinking The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. Emile M. Cioran knowing love art The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. Emile M. Cioran protest hell demand What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself. Emile M. Cioran endure morning night The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. Emile M. Cioran sole solitude mean Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him. Emile M. Cioran vomiting wish sometimes What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? Emile M. Cioran insects tragedy would-be Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth. Emile M. Cioran cancer tree men 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 succeed suicide reason I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person Emile M. Cioran groups feels country Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. Emile M. Cioran chaos-in-the-world chaos being-yourself As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything? Emile M. Cioran philosophical girl fighting However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice. Emile M. Cioran acrimony caprice devil Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough. Emile M. Cioran regret men world I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. Emile M. Cioran flow dust would-be What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification. Emile M. Cioran twenties long years 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 kingdoms animal men
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