Emil Cioran Quote

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.


The Trouble with Being Born (ed. Viking Books, 1976)


When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and...

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and...

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and...

When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and...