Changping Yin

“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

“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

“Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

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