To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
— Emil Cioran · Dying
The World Motivation
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”
— Emil Cioran · Dying
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.
If I went for too long without writing, I would start to feel like something inside me was dying.
Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
I trust myself. I trust my instincts. I know what I'm gonna do, what I can do, what I can't do. I've been through a lot, and I could go through more, but I hope I don't have to. But if I did, I'd be able to do it. I'm not going to enjoy dying, but there's not much prep for that.