Emil Cioran Quotes

This was freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.

One day it will be over, and I don't care.

There is a certain freedom in giving up all hope. One is no longer bound by the cords of dread or fear; you simply move toward the inevitable without thinking on the consequences.

That's the easy thing about falling: there is only one choice after that.

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.

It's nice to go into your doom. It's so liberating.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

'Weary Willie' is very real to me. He is a man who has given up. The boat has gone and left him. The cards are stacked against him. He's content to make out with what he's got. He knows he'll go no further.

Hopelessness has surprised me with patience.

All hope of remedy is considered vain

I am about to die, God calls me... I have scarcely strength enough to support the last days that remain of my miserable life... I see no salvation for the country. I believe everything is lost forever. If there were a single sacrifice I could make - my life, my happiness or my honour – believe me, I would not hesitate; but I am convinced the sacrifice would be useless. Since I am unable to secure the happiness of my country, I refuse to rule it. Further, the tyrants have taken my native land from me and therefore I have no longer any country for which to make a sacrifice

My poor friends. You are free—free as air. You can cast off the name of slave and trample on it. It will come to you no more.

When the calamity we feared is already arrived, or when the expectation of it is so certain as to shut out hope, there seems to be a principle within us by which we look with misanthropic composure on the state to which we are reduced, and the heart sullenly contracts and accommodates itself to what it most abhorred.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

A slave cannot be freed, save he do it himself. Nor can you enslave a free man; the very most you can do is kill him!

It is hard for the old slave holding spirit to die. But die it must.

Once a man has tasted freedom he will never be content to be a slave.

I can’t fight the sun. I can only watch helplessly as it drags me into a day that I’ve been dreading for months. Katniss Everdeen

When you can't climb your way out of such a hole, you tend to crouch down and call it home.

It's much too late to save myself from falling.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

I cling to my anger with every ounce of humanity left in my ruined body, but it's no use. It slips away, like a wave from shore. I am pondering this sad fact when I realize the blackness of sleep is circling my head. It's been there awhile, biding it's time and growing closer with each revolution. I give up on rage, which at this point has become a formality, and make a mental note to get angry again in the morning. Then I let myself drift, because there's really no fighting it.

Some people are beyond help, just accept that.

There's no saving me.