Quotes Tagged With :cioran

As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I....

The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If....

Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he shouldfirst immerse himself in the....

Despair is the state in which anxiety and restlessness are immanent to existence. Nobody in despair suffers....

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of....

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.Becoming:....

The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude,....

That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language....

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would....