Emile M. Cioran Rejection Quotations

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

There was a time when time did not yet exist. … The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.