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By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran “dreamt” himself “the chronicler of these saints’ falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God’s insomniacs.” Inspired by Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran “searched for the origin of tears.” He asked himself if saints could be “the sources of tears’ better light.”

“Who can tell?” he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. “To be sure, tears are their trace. Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise.” By following in their traces, “wetting the soles of one’s feet in their tears,” Cioran hoped to understand how a human being can renounce being human. Written in Cioran’s characteristic aphoristic style, this flamboyant, bold, and provocative book is one of his most important—and revelatory—works.

Cioran focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics—primarily female—famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional, and based solely on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Saint John of the Cross, have produced classic works of mystical literature; but Cioran celebrates many more minor and unusual figures as well.

Following Nietzsche, he focuses explicitly on the political element hidden in saints’ lives. In his hands, however, their charitable deeds are much less interesting than their thirst for pain and their equally powerful capacity to endure it. Behind their suffering and their uncanny ability to renounce everything through ascetic practices, Cioran detects a fanatical will to power.

“Like Nietzsche, Cioran is an important religious thinker. His book intertwines God and music with passion and tears. . . . [Tears and Saints] has a chillingly contemporary ring that makes this translation important here and now.”—Booklist

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E. M. Cioran (1911-1995) was born and educated in Romania and lived in Paris from 1937 until his death. He is the author of numerous works, including On the Heights of Despair, also available from the University of Chicago Press.

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眷恋表象的秉性使我们大多数人执着于生命。它使我们摆脱了圣洁。p 19

“我死时将有玫瑰飘落如雨。”（圣女小德兰）

“玫瑰，你散发着赤裸圣女撩人的香气。”（里尔克）p 25

莫扎特的优雅中有葬礼的回声：谁不曾觉察，谁就不知优雅乃是对悲伤的凯旋，不知世上只有忧郁的优雅。p 25

忧郁由其完整的序列：从一个微笑、一片风景开始，以一口破钟在灵魂中铿然作响告终。p 27

有些悲伤会在人的灵魂中投下隐修院的阴影。透过这种悲伤，我们开始懂得圣徒。尽管圣徒可能想陪我们直到苦涩的极限，但他们不能；他们在半途遗弃了我们，置我们于凄凉和悔恨。圣徒之心的中轴固定在上帝之中，斜度和我们截然不同。p 38

只有忘掉一切，才能真正记得。模糊的记忆揭示了时间之前的世界。通过逐渐倒空记忆，我们从时间中抽身而去。因此在失眠的夜里，我们会再次经历祖先的恐惧，那个世界已被遗忘，却恍如记忆般令我们心惊。这样的夜晚不会抹除记忆的实际内容（我们的历史），但会把我们带上一条在时光中蜿蜒回溯的小径。失眠是向起源的倒退和孤独的开始。它使时间变得稀薄，直至化为纯粹的视幻；它将我们从无常中放逐，强加给我们以最后记忆，也就是那最初记忆。在失眠症优美的消解之下，我们耗尽了自己的过去。于是我们似乎和所有时间一起死去。

想到夜晚的孤独，还有这孤独的剧痛，我就渴望在圣徒所不知的路上漫游。往何处去，往何处去？就连灵魂外面也有深渊。p 81

在感情的世界里，眼泪就是真理的标准。是泪，而不是哭。眼泪有一种透过内在的崩塌来表露自我的秉性。只在表面上哭过的人对眼泪的起源与意义一无所知。有些眼泪的鉴赏家从来没有真正哭过，然而他们是隐忍着不去引发一场宇宙的洪灾！

孤独就好像是荒芜的怒海之底，激流在那里漫卷骇浪，仿佛要把我们存在的屏障悉数摧毁。p 99

泪水穿透大地，在另一片天空中上升为点点繁星。真想知道是谁哭出了我们的繁星？p 108...

每次看到风景，我都想把身上一切非宇宙性的内容统统摧毁。草木的乡愁与大地的懊悔不可抵挡，我愿变成植物，每天死于日落时。

我既没有愁苦到足以成为诗人，又没有冷漠到像个哲学家。但我清醒到足以成为一个废人。

耶稣的父亲约瑟是史上最怂的人。基督徒把他晾到一边，让他成为所有人的笑柄。但凡他说出真相哪怕只有一次，他儿子就会仍是个籍籍无名的犹太佬。基督教的凯旋来自一种不自重的男子气。童女生子源于举世的虔诚和一个男人的懦弱。

我终究太是个基督徒了。从乞丐和沙漠那么让我着迷，从我常常为同情心失控所苦，就心知肚明。这些统统是变相的自我弃绝。我们血液里流淌着绝对者的有毒糟粕，它阻碍我们呼吸，可没有它，我们却不能活。

儿童令我望而生畏。他们眼睛里有太多不幸的应许。他们为何要长大成人呢？正如疯子，儿童被赐予了与生俱来的天赋，转眼就失落于徒劳的清醒。

书籍介绍

By the mid-1930s, Emil Cioran was already known as a leader of a new generation of politically committed Romanian intellectuals. Researching another, more radical book, Cioran was spending hours in a library poring over the lives of saints. As a modern hagiographer, Cioran “dreamt” himself “the chronicler of these saints’ falls between heaven and earth, the intimate knower of the ardors in their hearts, the historian of God’s insomniacs.” Inspired by Nietzsche’s Beyond Good and Evil, Cioran “searched for the origin of tears.” He asked himself if saints could be “the sources of tears’ better light.”

“Who can tell?” he wrote in the first paragraph of this book, first published in Romania in 1937. “To be sure, tears are their trace. Tears did not enter the world through the saints; but without them we would never have known that we cry because we long for a lost paradise.” By following in their traces, “wetting the soles of one’s feet in their tears,” Cioran hoped to understand how a human being can renounce being human. Written in Cioran’s characteristic aphoristic style, this flamboyant, bold, and provocative book is one of his most important—and revelatory—works.

Cioran focuses not on martyrs or heroes but on the mystics—primarily female—famous for their keening spirituality and intimate knowledge of God. Their Christianity was anti-theological, anti-institutional, and based solely on intuition and sentiment. Many, such as Catherine of Siena, Teresa of Avila, and Saint John of the Cross, have produced classic works of mystical literature; but Cioran celebrates many more minor and unusual figures as well.

Following Nietzsche, he focuses explicitly on the political element hidden in saints’ lives. In his hands, however, their charitable deeds are much less interesting than their thirst for pain and their equally powerful capacity to endure it. Behind their suffering and their uncanny ability to renounce everything through ascetic practices, Cioran detects a fanatical will to power.

“Like Nietzsche, Cioran is an important religious thinker. His book intertwines God and music with passion and tears. . . . [Tears and Saints] has a chillingly contemporary ring that makes this translation important here and now.”—Booklist