Emil Cioran on Identity
Browse 7 quotations attributed to Emil Cioran, catalogued under identity, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Emil Cioran, entry #69809: "It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
Attributed to Emil Cioran, entry #15576: "Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?"
7 Quotes by Emil Cioran on Identity
"It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late."
"Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?"
"Late at night. I feel like falling into a frenzy, doing some unprecedented thing to release myself, but I don't see against whom, against what..."
"Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to ask myself since I should have answered them all."
"Detachment from the world as an attachment to the ego... Who can realize the detachment in which you are as far away from yourself as you are from the world?"
"The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it."
"Pursued by our origins...we all are."