2 posts tagged e_m_cioran

Indifference and Once-Occurence Posted in Communication Studies by jgrefe on April 16th, 2008 An email from a friend this evening contained an aphorism from E.M. Cioran. The aphorism (from, I’m guessing “The Trouble With Being Born”) is: She meant absolutely nothing to me.

Carrion Existence Commenting on the horrifying future of the skin and of the constancy of its decay, Cioran said, “Much more than the skeleton, it is the flesh, I mean the carrion flesh, which disturbs and alarms us—and which alleviates us as well (1974).” Further, in the same essay, he writes,