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Emil Mihai Cioran (Romanian: [eˈmil tʃoˈran] ⓘ, French: [emil sjɔʁɑ̃]; 8 April 1911 – 20 June 1995) was a Romanian philosopher, aphorist and essayist, who published works in both Romanian and French.
2415 quotes from Emil M. Cioran: 'It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.', 'A book is a suicide postponed.', and 'Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists.
Nov 28, 2016 · Emil Cioran (1911–1995) was a Romanian-born French philosopher and author of some two dozen books of savage, unsettling beauty.
Jun 20, 1995 · Born in 1911 in Rășinari, a small village in the Carpathian Mountains of Romania, raised under the rule of a father who was a Romanian Orthodox priest and a mother who was prone to depression, Emil Cioran wrote his first five books in Romanian.
Feb 18, 2019 · That is what the Romanian philosopher Emil Cioran (April 8, 1911–June 20, 1995) — whom Susan Sontag celebrated as one of the most lucid, powerful, and nuanced thinkers of the twentieth century, a writer concerned with “consciousness tuned to the highest pitch of refinement” — explores in a passage from his arrestingly titled and ...
E. M. Cioran. Towards the end of the twentieth century, a celebrated Romanian-French philosopher and aphorist was invited to speak in Zurich. He was introduced with rhetorical pomp and flattering comparisons to the likes of Kierkegaard and Schopenhauer.
Nov 28, 2023 · Emil Cioran’s On the Heights of Despair is not just a book; it is a voyage through the highs and lows of human existence, told with a raw honesty that’s both unsettling and strangely liberating. It’s a must-read for anyone who’s not afraid to dive into the darker, more complex aspects of what it means to be human.
Jun 22, 1995 · E. M. Cioran, a Romanian-born writer known for his essays on philosophy and culture and his emphasis on despair, emptiness and death, died on Tuesday in the Broca Hospital in Paris.
Emil Cioran published during his lifetime sixteen books, the first six in his native Romanian, the other ten in French. He was awarded many literary prizes (including Rivarol, Saint-Beuve, Combat and Nimier); he accepted only one, the Rivarol Prize, for the first book he wrote in French, Précis de décomposition.
Jan 10, 2023 · Emil Cioran was a Romanian-French philosopher, essayist, and aphorist who has written many books on a variety of topics including philosophy, history, and literature.
