Changping Yin

“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“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

“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

“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