Art of Wisdom
Emil Michel Cioran
Emil Michel Cioran
“He who has lived in the pride of solitude until the end now has only one rival: God.”
“Show me something in this world that begins well and ends badly.”
“The lonely being is not the one abandoned by humans, but the one who suffers among humans.”
“Look around you: Preaching worms everywhere.”
“There is nothing on this earth I can believe in, salvation is only in oblivion.”
“In fractured families, a son comes along, devotes himself to the truth and is lost in the search for it.”
“If only the children I don't want to bring into the world knew the happiness they owe me.”
“We write to cause harm. We write to disturb comfort. Personally, everything I've read in my life, I've read to disturb my comfort.”
“If Noah had the ability to see the future, he would have sunk his ship without a doubt.”
“A conversation with someone who has not suffered is chatter.”
“To be mistaken, to live and die deceived; that's what people do.”