More From Emile M. Cioran
- "Negation is the mind’s first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us."
- "Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown."
- "My mission is to kill time, and time’s to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers."
More In Happiness
- "For me, however, that beloved, glowing little word happiness has become associated with everything I have felt since childhood upon hearing the sound of the word itself."― Herman Hesse
- "A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it."― Theodor Adorno
- "The lesson I have thoroughly learnt, and wish to pass on to others, is to know the enduring happiness that the love of a garden gives."― Gertrude Jekyll