Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
Emile M. CioranTo venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. CioranConsider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and of ecstasy: sublime...but a sublimity inseperable from the urinary tract: transports bordering upon excretion, a heaven of the glands, sudden sancitity of the orifices. It takes no more than a moment of attention for this intoxication, shaken, to cast you back into the ordures of physiology or a moment of fatigue to recognize that so much ardor produces only a variety of mucous.
Emile M. Cioran