Emile M. Cioran Quotes about Suffering

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This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

This very second has vanished forever, lost in the anonymous mass of the irrevocable. It will never return. I suffer from this and I do not. Everything is unique - and insignificant.

Emile M. Cioran

Unique, Forever, Suffering

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Emile M. Cioran

Pain, Real, Suffering

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable.

Emile M. Cioran

Loneliness, Men, Suffering

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

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.

Emile M. Cioran

Knowing, Ignorant, Suffering

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Power, Suffering, Appetite

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering, Belief, Appetite

Emile M. Cioran (1975). “A short history of decay”, Viking Books

Suffering makes you live time in detail, moment after moment. Which is to say that it exists for you: over the others, the ones who don't suffer, time flows, so that they don't live in time, in fact they never have.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering, Details, Flow

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

Emile M. Cioran

Believe, Suffering, Moments

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.

Emile M. Cioran

Suffering, Events, Moments

Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books