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“أشعر أنني منفصل تماما عن كل البلدان وعن كل المجموعات. أنا متشرد
ميتافيزيقي

I feel completely detached from any country, any group.
I am a metaphysically displaced person”
― Emil Cioran

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“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?”
― Emil Cioran

“لكلٍ جنونه، و قد تمثّل جنونى فى أن أعتبر نفسى سوياً، سوياً بشكلٍ خطِر، و لما كان الآخرون يبدون لى مجانين، فقد انتهى بى الأمر إلى الخوف منهم، و إلى الخوف منّى أكثر”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“لا يستطيع أحد أن يحرس عزلته إذا لم يعرف كيف يكون بغيضًا.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“Lost among these entirely strange people.”
― Franz Kafka, Diaries, 1910-1923

“كتابة الرسائل .. تعني أن تعري نفسكَ أمام الأشباح ، و هو شيء لطالما كانوا ينتظرونه بفارغ الصبر. كتابة القُبل فيها لا يعني أنها ستصل إلى مكانها المقصود ، بينما على العكس ، يتخطفها الأشباح على طول الطريق."

(كافكا إلى ميلينا)”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Milena

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche

“Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things means not to think at all. True thinking resembles a demon who muddies the spring of life or a sickness which corrupts its roots. To think all the time, to raise questions, to doubt your own destiny, to feel the weariness of living, to be worn out to the point of exhaustion by thoughts and life, to leave behind you, as symbols of your life's drama, a trail of smoke and blood - all this means you are so unhappy that reflection and thinking appear as a curse causing a violent revulsion in you.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“الإنسان كائن يفرز الكارثة”
― Emil Cioran, لو كان آدم سعيدًا

“People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves.”
― Albert Camus, The Fall

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?”
― Albert Camus

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Journals of Kierkegaard

“The thing is to understand myself: the thing is to find a truth which is true for me, to find the idea for which I can live and die. That is what I now recognize as the most important thing.”
― Søren Kierkegaard

“Once the state has been founded, there can no longer be any heroes. They come on the scene only in uncivilized conditions.”
― Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel