E.M. Cioran

A Short History of Decay

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  • Subhash Annapragadahas quotedlast year
    No one could survive the instantaneous comprehension of universal grief, each heart being stirred only for a certain quantity of sufferings
  • Subhash Annapragadahas quotedlast year
    Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and our memory.
  • Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    Whereas the fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited among the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exas
  • Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    he wants you to share his hysteria, his fullness, he wants to impose it on you, and thereby to disfigure you. A human being possessed by a belief and not eager to pass it on to others is a phenomenon alien to the earth, where our mania for salvation makes life unbreathable.
  • Talia Garzahas quoted2 years ago
    The result is fanaticism—fundamental defect which gives man the craving for effectiveness, for prophecy, for terror—a lyrical leprosy by which he contaminates souls, subdues them, crushes or exalts them. . . . Only the skeptics (or idlers or aesthetes) escape, because they propose nothing, because they—humanity’s true benefactors—undermine fanaticism’s purposes, analyze its frenzy
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