# Emil Cioran

- Quotes: 177
- Author page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran

## Books

- [A Short History of Decay](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/a-short-history-of-decay.md) — 65 quotes
- [The Trouble With Being Born](https://www.leafyquotes.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born.md) — 112 quotes

## Recently added quotes

> Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

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> Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.

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> To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.

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> We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

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> My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

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> Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying? — that void is consciousness itself.

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> God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.

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> The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.

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> Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.

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> To think that so many have succeeded in dying!

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> If instead of expanding you, putting you in a state of energetic euphoria, your ordeals depress and embitter you, you can be sure you have no spiritual vocation.

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> There is no false sensation.

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