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

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“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.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“If death had only negative aspects, dying would be an unmanageable action.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“A conscious fruit fly would have to confront exactly the same difficulties, the same kind of insoluble problems as man.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Nothing is better proof of how far humanity has regressed than the impossibility of finding a single nation, a single tribe, among whom birth still provokes mourning and lamentations.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.”
― Albert Camus

“Hell isn't other people. Hell is yourself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

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

“The real question of life after death isn't whether or not it exists, but even if it does what problem this really solves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Everyone is the other and no one is himself.”
― Martin Heidegger, Being and Time

“Philosophy leads to death, sociology leads to suicide.”
― Jean Baudrillard

“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein

“I was walking late one night along a tree-lined path; a chestnut fell at my feet. The noise it made as it burst, the resonance it provoked in me, and an upheaval out of all proportion to this insignificant event thrust me into miracle, into the rapture of the definitive, as if there were no more questions—only answers. I was drunk on a thousand unexpected discoveries, none of which I could make use of. …
This is how I nearly reached the Supreme. But instead I went on with my walk.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“All things are Nothing to Me”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.”
― Albert Camus

“What labels me, negates me.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“The human being is not the lord of beings, but the shepherd of Being.”
― Martin Heidegger

“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
― Albert Camus

“Whoever has learned to be anxious in the right way has learned the ultimate.”
― Søren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“Belief in the causal nexus is superstition.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

“The web of hypocrisy of today hangs on the frontiers of two domains, between which our time swings back and forth, attaching its fine threads of deception and self-deception. No longer vigorous enough to serve morality without doubt or weakening, not yet reckless enough to live wholly to egoism, it trembles now toward the one and now toward the other in the spider-web of hypocrisy, and, crippled by the curse of halfness, catches only miserable, stupid flies.”
― Max Stirner, The Ego and Its Own

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”
― Søren Kierkegaard , The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin

“I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols

“To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's.”
― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

“if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols