Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, ag... - Emil Cioran
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless, I feel that I no longer belong to the mortal gang. I am above everything then, above the gods themselves. Perhaps that is what death is: a sensation of great, of extreme superiority."
"By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing."
"The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live --moreover, the only one."
"Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference between the theoretician of faith and the believer is as great as between the psychiatrist and the psychotic."
"Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra de lumea obiectiva si nelinistea care da un caracter tragic vietuirii în existenta.Daca ar exista un zeu al tristetii, lui nu i-ar putea creste decât aripi negre si grele, pentru a zbura nu înspre ceruri, ci în infern."