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

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

“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

“What do you do from morning to night?"

"I endure myself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

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

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”
― Emil Cioran