Emil Cioran - Die Quotes

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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

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As long as I live I shall not allow myself to forget that I shall die; I am waiting for death so that I can forget about it.

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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!

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To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked.

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God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!

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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.

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We must live, you used to say, as if we were never going to die. - Didn't you know that's how everyone lives, including those obsessed with Death?

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The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

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In theory, it matters little to me whether I live as whether I die; in practice, I am lacerated by every anxiety which opens an abyss between life and death.

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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.

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The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

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Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be... optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?

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"You really should come to the house - one of these days we might die without having seen each other again." - "Since we have to die in any case, what's the use of seeing each other again?"

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Only thoughts that are randomly born die. The other thoughts we carry with us without knowing them. They have abandoned themselves to forgetfulness so that they can be with us all the time.

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I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.

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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

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Tell me how you want to die, and I'll tell you who you are.

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