Joseeph Nathan

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?”, I now put the same question about anyone alive.”
― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born