Emil Cioran > Quotes

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born

“A book is a suicide postponed.”
― Emil Cioran

“Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to die?”
― Emil Cioran

“Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being yourself.”
― Emil Cioran, A Short History of Decay

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”
― Emil Cioran

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”
― Emil Cioran

“لا ينتحر إلا المتفائلون، المتفائلون الذين لم يعودوا قادرين على الإستمرار فى التفاؤل. أما الآخرين، فلماذا يكون لهم مبرر للموت و هم لا يملكون مبرراً للحياة”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“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.”
― Emil Cioran, The New Gods

“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 Cioran

“If we could truly see ourselves the way others see us we'd disappear on the spot.”
― Emil Cioran

“لا وجود إلا لعلامة واحدة تشهد على أننا فهمنا كل شىء: أن نبكي بلا سبب”
― Emil Cioran

“Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.”
― Emil Cioran

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

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one.”
― Emil Cioran

“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”
― Emil Cioran, Tears and Saints

“مخافة أن نتعذب، نبذل قصارى جهدنا كى نلغى الواقع، و ما أن نفلح فى ذلك حتى يتحول هذا الإلغاء نفسه إلى مصدر عذاب”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“سر تكيفى مع الحياة؟ أنى أغيّر اليأس كما أغيّر القميص”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.”
― Emil Cioran, All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms

“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

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”
― Emil Cioran

“كلما ازدادت لا مبالاتى بالبشر تضاعفت قدرتهم على التأثير فىّ، و مهما احتقرتهم فإنى لا أستطيع الإقتراب منهم إلا متلعثماً”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.”
― Emil Cioran

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”
― Emil Cioran

“Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.”
― Emil Cioran

“إذا حزنت مرة دونما سبب فثِق أنك كنت حزيناً طيلة حياتك دون أن تعرف”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“غموض: كلمة نستعملها لخداع الآخرين، لإيهامهم بأننا أكثر عمقاً منهم.”
― Emil Cioran, المياه كلها بلون الغرق

“No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.”
― Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

“الضحك هو المبرر الكبير للحياة! وعليَّ القول إنني، حتى في أعمق لحظات اليأس، كنت قادرا على الضحك. هذا ما يميز الإنسان عن الحيوان. الضحك ظاهرة عدمية، تماما كما يمكن للفرح أن يكون حالة مأتمية”
― Emil Cioran