― ratty, Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:23 (eighteen years ago) link
Ha! worthy of the man himself.
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 15 January 2006 21:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― That I Could Clamber to the Frozen Moon and Draw the Ladder (Freud Junior), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:46 (eighteen years ago) link
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― Gatinha (rwillmsen), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:52 (eighteen years ago) link
― S. (Sébastien Chikara), Sunday, 15 January 2006 22:55 (eighteen years ago) link
Nazism, Cioran wrote, possessed "greatness." Germans had a "need for a Führer," and Hitlerism constituted "a destiny for Germany." Cioran supported a similar dictatorship for his country and believed that "only terror, brutality, and endless anxiety are likely to bring about a change in Romania. All Romanians should be arrested and beaten to a pulp; this is the only way a shallow nation could make a name for itself." "Hitler's merit," insisted the young voice of vitalist barbarism, "consists in depriving his nation of a critical spirit."
http://chronicle.com/temp/reprint.php?id=xzm8107fnyrw9nnrr3p3cwbm3mc04n21
― ,,, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
-sorry, everyone :(
― Space Gourmand (Haberdager), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:26 (seventeen years ago) link
― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― and what (ooo), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Friday, 15 September 2006 00:37 (seventeen years ago) link
"It is the worst of all possible worlds ... if it were a little worse, it would be no longer capable of continuing to exist. Consequently, since a worse world could not continue to exist, it is absolutely impossible; and so this world itself is the worst of all possible worlds."
"There is no doubt that life is given to us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome - to be got over."
― salexandra (salexander), Friday, 15 September 2006 01:17 (seventeen years ago) link
--Cyril Connolly
― Paul Ess (Paul Ess), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:50 (seventeen years ago) link
Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth. Look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity. Then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.
Of course, he has plenty of optimistic ones, too:
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
― Edward III (edward iii), Friday, 15 September 2006 16:01 (seventeen years ago) link
ANON
― Latham Green (mike), Friday, 5 January 2007 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
Dolphins, you play in the sea,But the waves are always bitter.Do I sometimes laugh with joy?Life is still cruel.
OMG I used to have a woodcut print that had this poem (in french) with it. I don't think I knew it was Apollinaire, but I always loved it.
― Trayce (trayce), Friday, 5 January 2007 04:49 (seventeen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan (ryan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― modestmickey, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:37 (seventeen years ago) link
― SusanD, Sunday, 1 April 2007 04:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― sonofstan, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― Zeno, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jena, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― max, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― scott seward, Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link
― M.V., Sunday, 1 April 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― max, Sunday, 1 April 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― ryan, Sunday, 1 April 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― mayhaps, Thursday, 10 May 2007 23:47 (sixteen years ago) link
― Gukbe, Friday, 11 May 2007 00:41 (sixteen years ago) link
No Adorno quotes?
― libcrypt, Sunday, 26 August 2007 03:57 (sixteen years ago) link
"Writing poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric"
― max, Sunday, 26 August 2007 04:06 (sixteen years ago) link
God, I need to read a Cioran book!
― Tape Store, Sunday, 26 August 2007 04:29 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm so glad there's some Nietzsche up in this bitch.
― Bimble, Sunday, 26 August 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the papers. -- Camus
most of these make lawl none moreso than this
― tremendoid, Sunday, 26 August 2007 05:01 (sixteen years ago) link
"The way in which we have spent the afternoon is so vile, we ought not to go on living."
Wittgenstein, after attending a rowing regatta with Russell.
― allez, allons-y, on y va (ledge), Sunday, 19 October 2008 15:48 (fifteen years ago) link
otm, rowing events are the worst
― jabba hands, Monday, 20 October 2008 00:48 (fifteen years ago) link
A single sentence will suffice for modern man: he fornicated and read the blogs.-- Camus
― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 00:53 (fifteen years ago) link
More Kierkegaard (this phrase is on the cover of my - Penguin iirc - edition of Fear and trembling), not so pessimistic if like Kierkegaard you are a Christian, but I don't share Søren's faith so it's fairly brutal to me:
"If a human being did not have an eternal consciousness, if underlying everything there were only a wild, fermenting power that writhing in dark passions produced everything, be it significant or insignificant, if a vast, never appeased emptiness hid beneath everything, what would life be then but despair?”
― what U cry 4 (jim), Monday, 20 October 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link
I know this is not A Thread for Disagreeing with Brutally Pessimistic Quotes by Anguished Philosophers and I love Kirkegaard but maaaan do I have a bone to pick with that...
― HOOS clique iphones fool get ya steen on (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Monday, 20 October 2008 01:01 (fifteen years ago) link
My flatmate says, regarding the Cioran quotes and Hitler approval, "If he thought life was meaningless anyway, what good was Nazism going to do?"
― Maria, Monday, 20 October 2008 01:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Lucky Job, who was not obliged to annotate his lamentations!
- EMC
― derelict, Monday, 20 October 2008 02:18 (fifteen years ago) link
In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened. For this intellect has no further mission that would lead beyond human life. It is human, rather, and only its owner and producer gives it such importance, as if the world pivoted around it.
--Nietzsche
― dream city (negotiable), Monday, 20 October 2008 03:59 (fifteen years ago) link
"A quick test of the assertion that enjoyment outweighs pain in this world, or that they are at any rate balanced, would be to compare the feelings of an animal engaged in eating another with those of the animal being eaten."
Schopenhauer again.
― woofwoofwoof, Monday, 20 October 2008 06:48 (fifteen years ago) link