Emil Cioran Quotes

There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected that I was watching TV instead of living life. Right when I was being shot and ever since, I knew that I was watching television.

Horror, almost better than any of the other genres, pits the will to live against the will toward nihilism. I just think that's worth exploring. I don't know what is more important, actually, to explore than that very dynamic.

What patients seek is not scientific knowledge that doctors hide, but existential authenticity each person must find on her own... the angst of facing mortality has no remedy in probability.

When I have conversations with people, for some strange reason they think I'm gonna die and they're not. But you know what? Death means nothing to me.

But come here, Fear. / I am alive! / And you are so afraid / of dying.

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men without shadows, dismissed from the ranks of the mortal; it was the most complete experience of freedom that can be granted a man.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

People don't live or die, people just float.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Most people are paralyzed by fear. Overcome it and you take charge of your life and your world.

YOU FEAR TO DIE? "It's not that I don't want... I mean, I've always...it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break.

Do you think that people ever really do believe they will die, that the world will just go along as always without them? I wonder if we aren't all a little surprised at the moment of crossover, if we don't look back over our shoulders saying, Now hold on.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing the fortress of the deathless unending nature of mind. Now all fear of death is over and done.

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.

You are the true master of death, because the true master does not seek to run away from Death.

I can see where creation often stops while the body still lives and often does not care to. the death of life before life dies.

When it seems you have nothing at all to live for, death is not especially frightening.

In my case, I was not frightened in the least bit at the thought that I might live because I was certain, quite certain, that I was already dead.