The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them. - Emil Cioran

The only profound thinkers are the ones who do not suffer from a sense of the ridiculous.

In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual, you are left—ignorant how to react—with a foolish grin

Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being.