Death Quote by Emil Cioran — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.”

“Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.”

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”

“In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume, spre a muri undeva fara acoperis si fara lacrimi; adolescentii se gandesc la sinucideri in zile infinite de primavara, iar servitoarele fara amanti se lamenteaza duminicile, de parca inima lor e un cimitir in care mortii nu pot dormi.”

“To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.”

“I'm going to die. And as if that weren't bad enough, I'm going to die inside a cake.”

“Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”

“Forget it. Never explain; never apologize. You can either write posthumously or you can't.”

“Keisuke: "It's alright for you to kill someone?”

“The dead man is on the trolley and the woman collapses across his chest. That's what the ghouls want a shufti at, like at that Princess Diana's funeral, they want to scrutinise those who really knew her, to drink the misery out of their faces.”

“One of them had something small and black in his hand that Johnson very much feared was  a gun. He was considering his options when he saw Goldberg’s head emerge above the latch door.”