Romanian - Philosopher | April 8, 1911 - June 20, 1995
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emil Cioran
EverythingIndifferenceExcept
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
SilenceFeelSpeechMouthOpenWho
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
OthersSeeUsWouldOurselvesSpot
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
DespairOutDefineGiveMustVoid
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
LiveManDieSuicideAttentionWho
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
LifeUndoneItselfEnnuiDelirium
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
YourselfWorthYouLateToo Late
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.
CriticismUnderstandOthersMust
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
ManEverydayOverAgainstAgainHe
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
LifeDecisionExistMustIrrational
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
BornBeingDiseaseDeadlyEver
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
MadnessVitalityStoreOurDerive
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