Before man ventures into daydreams about his futuristic society, he should
first immerse himself in the nothingness of his being, and finally restore life to what it is all about: a working hypothesis.
Tags: life existence philosophy cioran
Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
Emil M. CioranTags: death cioran memento-mori
True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Emil M. CioranTags: sadness loneliness cioran
If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it.
Becoming: an agony without an ending.The older I grow, the less I enjoy performing my little Hamlet. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. If History had a goal, how lamentable would be the fate of those of us who have accomplished nothing!
On the frontiers of the self: ‘What I have suffered, what I am suffering, no one will ever know, not even I’. Events - tumours of time.
Man secretes disaster.
The secret of my adaptation to life? - I’ve changed despairs the way I’ve changed shirts. Each day is a Rubicon in which I aspire to be drowned.
Tags: pessimism reality cioran emil-cioran
That there should be a reality hidden behind appearances is, after all, quite possible; that language might render such a thing would be an absurd hope.
Emil M. CioranTags: language cioran hidden-reality
This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something changes in myself, not so much my inclinations or my tastes as my very blood, as if a subtle disease had been injected to alter its course, its density and nature. To live around a true poet is to feel your blood run thin, to dream a paradise of anemia, and to hear, in your veins, the rustle of tears.
Emil M. CioranTags: change poet cioran authentic emil-cioran
In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping
Emil M. CioranTags: melancholy cioran
Una poesía digna de ese nombre comienza por la experiencia de la fatalidad. Sólo los malos poetas son libres.
Emil M. CioranTags: cioran silogismos-de-la-amargura
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