“Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?”

Emil Cioran, On the Heights of Despair

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Regarding God, Cioran has noted that “without Bach, God would be a complete second-rate figure” and that “Bach’s music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded as a complete failure”.

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His mother once said that if she knew how miserable he would have turned out, she would have aborted him, a statement which Cioran described as “liberating”.

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the misanthrope, as an essentially solitary man, is not a man at all: he must be a monster or a god, a view reflected in the Renaissance view of misanthropy as a “beast-like state”.

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Humanity is a moral disaster. There would have been much less destruction had we never evolved. The fewer humans there are in the future, the less destruction there will still be.
—David Benatar, “The Misanthropic Argument for Anti-natalism”