To accomplish nothing and die of the strain
Emil M. CioranIf we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.
Emil M. CioranShame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.
Emil M. CioranConsciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Emil M. CioranTags: life
the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
Emil M. CioranTags: despair
A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.
Emil M. CioranTo have solely one thought, but it to be capable of destroy the universe
Emil M. CioranThe multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
Emil M. CioranTags: misanthropy reproduction
A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything. Was boredom unknown to them? This is indeed a question raised by a human, a busy ape. Far from fleeing monotony, animals crave it, and what they most dread is to see it end. For it ends, only to be replaced by fear, the cause of all activity. Inaction is divine; yet it is against inaction that man has rebelled. Man alone, in nature, is incapable of enduring monotony, man alone wants something to happen at all costs — something, anything.... Thereby he shows himself unworthy of his ancestor: the need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.
Emil M. CioranTags: life
I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.
Emil M. CioranTags: inspirational uplifting joyful
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