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“الأوراق الأخيرة تسقط متراقصة. لا بد من جرعة كبيرة من فقدان الحس كي نواجه الخريف”
― Emil Cioran

“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

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
― E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شىء: أن نبكي بلا سبب”
― Emil Cioran

“Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.”
― Émile Michel Cioran, The New Gods

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― E. M. Cioran

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
― Emil Cioran

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“الضحك هو المبرر الكبير للحياة! وعليَّ القول إنني، حتى في أعمق لحظات اليأس، كنت قادرا على الضحك. هذا ما يميز الإنسان عن الحيوان. الضحك ظاهرة عدمية، تماما كما يمكن للفرح أن يكون حالة مأتمية”
― Emil Cioran

“إذا حزنت مرة دونما سبب فثِق أنك كنت حزيناً طيلة حياتك دون أن تعرف”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“مع التقدم فى السن يتعلم المرء مقايضة مخاوفه بقهقهاته :)))))”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“I don’t understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn’t it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.”
― Emil Cioran

“The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic.”
― Emil Cioran

“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?”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society”
― Emil Cioran

“كم تفزعني القداسة ، هذا التدخل في مآسي الأخر ينٌ ، هذا الكرم الوحشي ، هذه الرحمة التي لا رحمة فيهٌا ولا شفقة”
― Emil Cioran

“فى عقب القرون الأخرى التى مارست التعذيب بلا مبالاة، يبدو قرننا هذا أكثر حرصاً على الإتقان، أنه يضيف إلى هذه الممارسة طهرانية تشرّف وحشيتنا”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“Every act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.”
― Emil Cioran, Drawn and Quartered

“The more power man acquires, the more vulnerable he becomes. What he must fear most is the moment when, creation entirely fleeced, he will celebrate his triumph, that fatal apotheosis, the victory he will not survive.”
― Emil Cioran, Drawn and Quartered

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
― Émile Michel Cioran

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“نسي الطين ساعة أنه طين حقير فصال تيها وعربد
وكسا الخز جسمه فتباهى وحوى المال كيسه فتمرد”
― إيليا أبو ماضي

“We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.”
― Emil Cioran

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall is Divided: Aphorisms

“The real world is simply too terrible to admit.
it tells man that he is a small trembling animal who will someday decay and die.
Culture changes all of this,makes man seem important,vital to the universe.
immortal in some ways”
― Ernest Becker