Cioran

"And why all this? Because I was born. It is a special type of sleeplessness that produces the indictment of birth." [3]

"Ever since I was born"-that since has a resonance so dreadful to my ears it becomes unendurable.

"We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life. "

"We are reluctant, of course, to treat birth as a scourge: has it not been inculcated as the sovereign good- have we not been told the worst came at the end, not at the outset of our lives? Yet evil, the real evil, is behind, not ahead of us."

"To have committed every crime but that of being a father"

"The disabused man is different: for him, disappointment occurs at the same time as the deed; he has no need to await it, it is present....when we perceive the end in the beginning, we move faster than time. Illumination, that lightning disappointment, affords certitude which transforms disillusion into deliverance. "

"Rare are the day when, projected into post-history, I fail to witness the gods' hilarity at leaving behind the human episode. What we need is an alternate vision, when that of the Last Judgment no longer satisfies anyone. "

"The real, the unique misfortune, to see the light of day..."