— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Author: Sineokov
Tone — making our organic pulsations felt
We say: he has no talent, only tone. But tone is precisely what cannot be invented — we’re born with it. Tone is an inherited grace, the privilege some of us have of making our organic pulsations felt — tone is more than talent, it is its essence.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
mechanicaly bestir
The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me, I bestir myself mechanically or out of charity, without ever being caught up, without ever being somewhere. What attracts me is somewhere else, and I don’t know what that elsewhere is.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
In a metropolis as in a hamlet, what we still love best is to watch the fall of one of our kind.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
A disease is ours only from the moment we are told its name, the moment when the rope is put around our neck. . . .
E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
The ideal being? An angel ravaged by humor.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
Indispensable condition for spiritual fulfillment: to have always placed the wrong bet.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
We have convictions only if we have studied nothing thoroughly.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass — which is better than trying to fill them.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
what’s important
No need to elaborate works – merely say something that can be murmured in the ear of a drunkard or a dying man.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
There is a god at the outset, if not at the end, of every joy.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
In the deepest part of yourself, aspire to be as dispossessed, as lamentable as God.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born
The Floating Library 