A review by softlights
On the Heights of Despair by E.M. Cioran

5.0

Incredibly pessimistic, but also incredibly beautiful. I found it comforting in a strange, melancholic way. A thought-provoking book on death, insomnia, existence, loneliness, sadness, suffering, suicide and the likes. I thoroughly enjoyed Cioran's musings on the paradoxes of human existence, the distinction between melancholy and sadness, and the disparity between the infinite world and the finite individual.