https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran
Emil Mihai Cioran (Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ⓘ, French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 - 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French. His work has been noted for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, style, and aphorisms.His works frequently engaged with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism.

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Learn about the life and work of Emil Cioran, a Romanian-born French philosopher and author of savage, unsettling essays. He was obsessed with failure, wrote himself out of death, and saw life as a mistake.

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/68189.Emil_M_Cioran
Suicide is a positive act.". And they do calm down.". 2415 quotes from Emil M. Cioran: 'It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.', 'A book is a suicide postponed.', and 'Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists.

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The son of an orthodox priest, Emil Cioran reflected obsessively on the condition of humanity in a universe without God. Outstripping even Schopenhauer in his relentless pessimism, Cioran developed an aphoristic style, arguably to literary perfection, by which he delivered piercing insights into the "inconvenience of existence" ("which

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Heights_of_Despair
On the Heights of Despair (Romanian: Pe culmile disperării) is a Romanian philosophical work written by Emil Cioran, published in 1934 as his first book.It consists of several brief reflections on negative themes which later permeated Cioran's work, such as death, insomnia and insanity.. It was one of several works that Cioran wrote in his native Romanian language.

https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/22/obituaries/e-m-cioran-84-novelist-and-philosopher-of-despair.html
Mr. Cioran wrote a thesis on Bergson's thought, and earned a degree in 1932. When his first book, the essays entitled "On the Heights of Despair," was published in 1933 in Bucharest it won the

https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/post/on-the-feeling-of-some-essential-failure
Costica Bradatan, In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility (Harvard University Press) Reviewed by Alexandre Leskanich "Being", Emil Cioran wrote in one of his states of depressive pique, is "a pretension of nothingness". As mortal beings poised between being and nothingness, inextricable from our existence - from our tormented self-consciousness of our existence - is what he

https://www.themarginalian.org/2019/02/18/emil-cioran-delusion/
The Romanian philosopher explores the necessity and danger of breaking the spell of self-deception in a 1956 book. He argues that a minimum of unconsciousness is necessary to stay inside history and that America is preparing to descend into hell.

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edit data. Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian. Some of these are collections of brief essays (one or two pages, on average); others are

https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/cioran-emil-1911-95/v-1
A biographical article on the Romanian-French philosopher and writer Emil Cioran, who explored themes such as despair, solitude, decay, and the absurdity of human existence. Learn about his life, works, awards, and influence in the French literary scene.

https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Cioran
Emil Cioran s-a născut în data de 8 aprilie 1911, în satul Rășinari, din comitatul Sibiu, Austro-Ungaria (azi în județul Sibiu, România ). Tatăl său, Emilian Cioran, a fost protopop ortodox și consilier al Mitropoliei din Sibiu. Mama sa, Elvira Cioran (n. Comaniciu), era originară din Veneția de Jos, comună situată în apropiere

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Emil Cioran is Romania's most famous thinker: his darkly pessimistic philosophy is a perfect antidote to the sentimental cheeriness of our times. Enjoying ou

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E. M. Cioran. Translated and with an Introduction by Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston. Born of a terrible insomnia—"a dizzying lucidity which would turn even paradise into hell"—this book presents the youthful Cioran, a self-described "Nietzsche still complete with his Zarathustra, his poses, his mystical clown's tricks, a whole circus of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trouble_with_Being_Born_(book)
The Trouble with Being Born (French: De l'inconvénient d'être né) is a 1973 philosophy book by Romanian author Emil Cioran.The book is presented as a series of aphorisms, meditating primarily on the painful nature of being alive, and how this is connected to other subjects, such as God, metaphysical exile, and decay. In 2020, The Trouble with Being Born became a Penguin Modern Classic.

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What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know where that elsewhere is. Emil Cioran ( 8 April 1911 - 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher and essayist whose work is known for its pervasive philosophical pessimism, which frequently engages with issues of suffering, decay, and nihilism .

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In this volume, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident." In the lucid, aphoristic style that characterizes his work, Cioran writes of time and death, God and religion, suicide and suffering

https://psyche.co/ideas/learning-to-be-a-loser-a-philosophers-case-for-doing-nothing
Having thus received 'the revelation of the universal insignificance', Cioran decided that the best possible social existence would be a parasite's life - a loser. In a meaningless world, he observed, 'only one thing matters: learning to be the loser'. Embracing loserdom, making the most of it, becoming one with it, became the great

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/117564.The_Trouble_with_Being_Born
Emil M. Cioran, Richard Howard (Translator) 4.11. 8,918 ratings1,025 reviews. In this volume, which reaffirms the uncompromising brilliance of his mind, Cioran strips the human condition down to its most basic components, birth and death, suggesting that disaster lies not in the prospect of death but in the fact of birth, "that laughable accident."

https://spikemagazine.com/1197cior/
Cioran shows by example, how various the tension between opposites is manifested. His examples have one thing in common it seems: the admittance of lucidity, that which lies behind all stories, all systems, all action, all help. As academia eschews ambivalence and individualism, rewarding instead skills of memory and language, it might be worth

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but my cioran has a historical dimension still recoverable from a not-too-distant past. he is a young intellectual from romania's politically troubled interwar period. along with eugene ionesco, the absurdist playwright and member of the académic franēaise, and mircea eliade, the philosopher and historian of religions, he

https://ir.library.louisville.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1543&context=faculty
The Benefi ts of Being a Suicidal Curmudgeon: Emil Cioran on Killing Yourself. G. M. Trujillo, Jr. University of Louisville. Abstract: Emil Cioran offers novel arguments against suicide. He assumes a meaningless world. But in such a world, he argues, suicide and death would be equally as meaningless as life or anything else.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_and_Utopia
History and Utopia (French: Histoire et utopie) is a 1960 philosophical book by the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (1911-1995), which analyzes the ascendancy of the Soviet Union, the psychology of tyranny, and the historical concept of Utopia.The book also deals with several negative themes which permeate Cioran's work, including dissatisfaction with the world, the importance of negative

https://medium.com/@tamimi_/cioran-nietzsche-and-toxic-positivity-dc6d65169dc8
Cioran is the man that you meet in a gathering and starts asking you about your failed business, your moments of despair and melancholy, or your shortcomings. He is way more interested in your