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Quotes About Isolation

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.
~ Emil Cioran
I would like to be free, totaly free... free like an aborted child.
~ Emil Cioran
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
~ Emil Cioran
Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinucide din groaza de singuratate.
~ Emil Cioran
The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.
~ Emil Cioran
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
~ Emil Cioran
Having destroyed all my connections, burned my bridges, I should feel a certain freedom, and in fact I do. One so intense I am afraid to rejoice in it.
~ Emil Cioran
Without the idea of suicide I would have surely killed myself.
~ Emil Cioran
Personal imi dau demisia din omenire.
~ Emil Cioran
De ce un singuratic simte mai mult? Fiindca singuratatea-i suferinta.
~ Emil Cioran
At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j'ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.
~ Emil Cioran
The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.
~ Emil Cioran
I wonder through the days like a whore in a world with no sidewalks.
~ Emil Cioran
Neîmplinirea unui om este o sinucidere prin etape.
~ Emil Cioran
Mi-am pierdut, în contact cu oamenii, toat? prospeÅ£imea nevrozelor. (Silogismele amaraciunii)
~ Emil Cioran
Sunt convins c? nu sunt absolut nimic în univers, dar simt c? singura existen?? real? este a mea.
~ Emil Cioran
Totul e înghetat si tu esti risipitor de zîmbete.
~ Emil Cioran
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who drags his desert through the marketplace and deploys his talents as a smiling leper, a mountebank of the irreparable. The great solitaries were happy in the old days, knew nothing of duplicity, had nothing to hide: they conversed only with their own solitude.
~ Emil Cioran
Our power resides in our incapacity to know how alone we are.
~ Emil Cioran
Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.
~ Emil Cioran
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.
~ Emil Cioran
There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely.
~ Emil Cioran
Le même sentiment d'inappartenance, de jeu inutile, où que j'aille : je feins de m'intéresser à ce qui ne m'importe guère, je me trémousse par automatisme ou par charité, sans jamais être dans le coup, sans jamais être quelque part. Ce qui m'attire est ailleurs, et cet ailleurs je ne sais ce qu'il est.
~ Emil Cioran
Dup? orice conversaÅ£ie, eÅŸti mai p?r?sit ca în mormânt. Å¢i?ai uÅŸurat spiritul ÅŸi Å£i?a putrezit inima. Vorbele au zburat în vânt ÅŸi cu ele substanÅ£a izol?rii tale.
~ Emil Cioran