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“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

“What do you do from morning to night?"

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

“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

“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

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

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”
― Emil Cioran

“Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.”
― Emil Cioran

“Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.”
― Emil Cioran

“لا شيء يثبت أننا أكثر من لا شيء.”
― Emil Cioran

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don’t know where that elsewhere is.”
― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”
― Emil Cioran

“الرغبة في الموت كانت همي الأوحد والوحيد.
في سبيله ضحيت بكل شئ ، حتي بالموت”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
― Emil Cioran

“Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.”
― Émile Michel Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.”
― Emil Cioran

“Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end.”
― Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays