Emil Cioran Quotes

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.

Time has no meaning. I feel as if I have been left in the desert to die and am eagerly awaiting the vultures to begin their work and end my misery.

Human beings can reach such desperate solitude that they may cross a boundary beyond which words cannot serve, and at such moments there is nothing left for them but to bark.

I crawled back into myself all alone, just delighted to observe that I was even more miserable than before, because I had brought a new kind of distress and something that resembled true feeling into my solitude.

Alone, Alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide wide sea! And never saint took pity on My soul in agony

Loneliness and hunger were my fortunes of creation.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

Right now, they feel they have lost their voice, and their miseries have increased since my departure.

Maybe men are separated from each other only by the degree of their misery.

There is no corner too quiet, or too far away, for a woman to make sorrow in it.

When you have adversity and you have pain, you never feel more alone than you do at that moment. And you can be surrounded by hundreds of thousands of people.

I guess lyrically they're similar because they're talking about escaping the kind of misery that likes company. 'The Last One Alive,' for me, is very simple. It's just about alienation, really, that causes anger.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.

The idea of feeling isolated is scary to me - to walk through the world alone would be heartbreaking.

Not having a roof over your head at night must be frightening, cold, lonely and depressing. To be seriously ill as well must be beyond upsetting.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

I'm a silly little needy person sometimes, and I crouch in a room all alone and think of all the people that I wish were with me.

I am, I said to no one there and no one heard at all, not even a chair.

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

Misery loves company, and madness calls it forth.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.