/lit/ - Literature

>>17495482
Not exactly, but he has an aohorism about that

>>16553969
Just keep contemplating suicide and everything will be fine

Say something nice about him

>come up with a nice book idea
>it's just a mix between The Temple of the Golden Pavillion, Lolita, Confessions of a Mask and anything by Oscar Wilde

Can we have a Cioran thread? How did you get into him, what are your favourite works by him, who are some authors that you think have a similar worldview?
I'm personally obsessed with his Cahiers, I read a bit every night before bed, impossibly beautiful yet funny and comforting despite the darkness and cynicism.

Emil is sad
What do?

It doesn't have a point

>>14249786

>>14147756

I don't know if I'll make it lads...

>tfw insomnia

If only you knew how bad things really are.

"I don't understand why we must do things in this world, why we must have friends and aspirations, hopes and dreams. Wouldn't it be better to retreat to a faraway corner of the world, where all its noise and complications would be heard no more? Then we could renounce culture and ambitions; we would lose everything and gain nothing; for what is there to be gained from this world? There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely. We are so closed to one another! And yet, were we to be totally open to each other, reading into the depths of our souls, how much of our destiny would we see? We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. Can there be any consolation at the last moment? This willingness to live and die in society is a mark of great deficiency. It is a thousand times preferable to die somewhere alone and abandoned so that you can die without melodramatic posturing, unseen by anyone. I despise people who on their deathbed master themselves and adopt a pose in order to impress. Tears do not burn except in solitude. Those who ask to be surrounded by friends when they die do so out of fear and inability to live their final moments alone. They want to forget death at the moment of death. They lack infinite heroism. Why don't they lock their door and suffer those maddening sensations with a lucidity and a fear beyond all limits?
We are so isolated form everything! But isn't everything equally inaccessible to us? 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

>>12675202
I guess that's the default state of existence. The only true bad luck is to being born.

>Existing is plagiarism
>Nothing makes us modest, not even the sight of a corpse
>in history, we are always on the threshold of the worse
>Individuals, like empires, favor a long, shameful end
>Progress? Perhaps we can find it in hygiene...
>Nothing reveals the vulgar man better than his refusal to be disappointed
>You side with life only when you utter - with all your heart - a banality

>>10120788
I pray to God the world dies before it gets much worse than it is now.

What are good books to go after him? I've read most of his stuff now and his pessimism is not doing anything to me anymore. I want to go deeper into the rabbit hole. Where's a good place to go after him?

>inb4 your/mine diary

Is Emil Cioran basically the character Kirillov from Demons IRL?

Cioran.
I'm not happy, Being surrounded by people being happy makes me more unhappy.
He seems a nice person to be around of.

>Well fuck you dad, I didn't ASK to be born

What is his best work?