Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
Emile M. CioranTo think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.
Emile M. CioranIt is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see the earth shrink under his feet: we are biologically obliged to the false
Emile M. CioranTrue confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.
Emile M. Cioran