Tudor Ionel > Tudor's Quotes

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

“What do you do from morning to night?"

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

“Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I get along quite well with someone only when he is at his lowest point and has neither the desire nor the strength to restore his habitual illusions.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what was not itself, its autonomous existence, its special status, its empire, its tyranny. I remember quite clearly that afternoon when, for the first time, confronting the empty universe, I was no more than a passage of moments reluctant to go on playing their proper parts. Time was coming unstuck from being—at my expense.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“The real, the unique misfortune: to see the light of day. A disaster which dates back to aggressiveness, to the seed of expansion and rage within origins, to the tendency to the worst which first shook them up.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?”, I now put the same question about anyone alive.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Once we reject lyricism, to blacken a page becomes an ordeal: what’s the use of writing in order to say exactly what we had to say?”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“I think of so many people who are no more, and I pity them. Yet they are not so much to be pitied, for they have solved every problem, beginning with the problem of death.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Arbori masacraţi. Răsar case. Mutre, mutre pretutindeni: omul e cancerul Pământului.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Am trăit întotdeauna cu conştiinţa neputinţei de a trăi. Şi ceea ce mi-a făcut existenţa suportabilă e curiozitatea de a vedea cum aveam să trec de la un minut, de la o zi, de la un an la altul.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“If we could sleep twenty-four hours a day, we would soon return to the primordial slime, the beatitude of that perfect torpor before Genesis-the dream of every consciousness sick of itself.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Nu cunosc pe nimeni mai inutil şi mai inutilizabil ca mine. E un fapt pe care ar trebui să-l accept pur şi simplu,fără să mă consider cîtuşi de puţin mîndru pentru asta. Dacă nu va fi aşa, conştiinţa inutilităţii mele nu-mi vaservi la nimic.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“In the days when I set off on month-long bicycle trips across France, my greatest pleasure was to stop in country cemeteries, to stretch out between two graves, and to smoke for hours on end. I think of those days as the most active period of my life.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Adevărata legătură dintre ființe nu se stabileste decât prin prezența mută, prin aparenta necomunicare, prin schimbul misterios si fără cuvinte care seamană cu rugaciunea interioarã.”
― Emil Cioran, Del inconveniente de haber nacido

“Să te răzvrăteşti împotriva eredităţii înseamnă să te răzvrăteşti împotriva a miliarde de ani, împotriva primeicelule.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“No one has lived so close to his skeleton as I have lived to mine: from which results an endless dialogue and certain truths which I manage neither to accept nor to reject.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Naştere şi lanţ sîrit sinonime. Sa vezi lumina zilei înseamnă să vezi cătuşe...Dacă am putea dormi douăzeci şi patru de ore din douăzeci şi patru, am regăsi cu repeziciune marasmul primordial, beatitudinea lîncezelii fără cusur de dinaintea Facerii — visul oricărei conştiinţe excedate de sine.Să nu te naşti este, fără doar şi poate, cea mai bună formulă care există. Ea nu e, din nefericire, la îndemînanimănui. Nimeni n-a iubit mai mult ca mine această lume şi, cu toate acestea, dacă mi-ar fi fost oferită pe tavă, chiar copilaş fi exclamat: „Prea tîrziu, prea tîrziu!"Ce aveţi, ce s-a îndmplat ? — N-am nimic, n-am nimic, am făcut o săritură în afara destinului meu, şi nu mai ştiuacum spre ce să mă întorc, spre ce să fug...”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

Both theses are equally well-founded, hence equally true, as each of us can discover for himself in the space of an hour, sometimes of a minute. …”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer remember anything. But something tells me that after a certain time a secret joy possesses them, a joy they would not agree to trade for any of their memories, even the most stirring. …”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“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

“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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

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