إنّ عالماً بلا طغاة لهو عالمٌ لا يقل إضجاراً عن حديقة حيوانات بلا ضباع. فالسيد الذى نحن فى انتظاره مرتاعين لن يكون تحديداً إلا مولعاً بالعفونة، ولن نظهر جميعاً فى حضرته إلا بمظهر الجيف. فليأت ليتشمّمنا، وليتمرّغ فى عطننا. هى ذى رائحة جديدة تخيّم على الكون.
Emil M. CioranTo grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready to sacrifice himself to defend them, and they collapse under the first blows perpetrated upon them. This is even more true of nations in general. Once they begin to hold life sacred, it abandons them, it ceases to be on their side.
Emil M. CioranWhile they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the use of that?” he was asked. “To know this tune before dying.” If I dare repeat this reply long since trivialized by the handbooks, it is because it seems to me the sole serious justification of any desire to know, whether exercised on the brink of death or at any other moment of existence.
Emil M. CioranThe idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and who thus has the advantage of proceeding from relapse to relapse, with all that this implies as philosophic reflexion.
Emil M. CioranEvery act of courage is the work of an unbalanced man. Animals, normal by definition, are always cowardly except when they know themselves know themselves to be stronger, which is cowardice itself.
Emil M. CioranIf there was a common, even official form of killing oneself, suicide would be much easier and much more frequent. But since to be done with it all we must find our own way, we waste so much time meditating on trifles that we forget what is essential.
Emil M. CioranThe state of health is a state of nonsensation, even nonreality. As soon as we cease to suffer, we cease to exist.
Emil M. CioranBut man is a strayed animal, and when he falls victim to doubt, if he should happen to take no further pleasure in attacking others, he turns on himself in order to inflict merciless tortures.
Emil M. CioranI have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.
Emil M. CioranBoredom in the midst of paradise generated our first ancestor’s appetite for the abyss which has won us this procession of centuries whose end we now have in view. That appetite, a veritable nostalgia for hell, would not fail to ravage the race following us and to make it the worthy heir of our misfortunes.
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