Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
Emile M. CioranThinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.
Emile M. CioranThat history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit.
Emile M. CioranTrees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.
Emile M. Cioran