And what's the deal with Cioran? What are his essential works?

is there a small subset of teenagers who post this shit every day or did people actually fall for the linkin park-core meme

Ligotti's been big here since True Detective season 1 when Pizza plagiarized him and name-dropped ad nauseum because he thought that made it ok. His fiction is better than his antinatalism

Cioran is better, read A Short History of Decay and The Trouble With Being Born, and continue from there if you like him

>>8207815
Quotes from The Trouble with Being Born:

"Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal- less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him."

"Philosophy in the Morgue. 'My nephew was obviously a failure. If he succeeded in making something of himself he would have had a different ending than... this.' 'You know, Madame,' I replied to the monumental matron who had addressed me, 'whether one succeeds or not comes down to the same thing.' 'You're right,' she said, after a few seconds' thought. This unexpected acquiescence on the part of such a woman moved me almost as much as the death of my friend."

"If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization."

really makes u think

>>8207839
eh, this type of writing seems more silly and edgy when taken out of context and put into goodreads-sized text bytes. Cioran can get a bit melodramatic sometimes, but I think he's fun to read overall

>>8207876
Those are his aphorisms in their entirety.

>>8207922
yes, but Cioran tends to group his aphorisms into thematically similar 'bundles' in his books, which helps get me onto his wavelength more than just reading them isolated