Emil Cioran Quotes

There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.

We try, we fail, we posture, we aspire, we pontificate - and then we age, shrink, die, and vanish.

Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.

You must realize that one day you will die. Until then you are worthless.

I thought about all of the things that everyone ever says to each other, and how everyone is going to die, whether it's in a millisecond, or days, or months, or 76.5 years, if you were just born. Everything that's born has to die, which means our lives are like skyscrapers. The smoke rises at different speeds, but they're all on fire, and we're all trapped.

You are not a beautiful, unique snowflake... This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

You don't waste your entire life waiting to go back to dust.

Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.

You are a little soul carrying around a corpse.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Everything on earth is a game. A passing thing. We all end up dead. We all end up the same, don't we?

Time is a gift and a threat because we are bodily creatures. We only come into existence through the bodies of others, but that very body destines us to death. We must be born and we must die.

Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying.

We shall all die, and our lives will be irrelevant then.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

I don’t know. We’ll all be dead.

We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.

We are all terminal.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

As much as we'd like to think life is sacred, there's not a lot of evidence for that. The universe is maddeningly casual, giving and taking it.

To live is to die.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.