# The Trouble With Being Born

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- Book: [The Trouble With Being Born](https://www.bookquiver.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born) ([The Trouble With Being Born.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/emil-cioran/the-trouble-with-being-born.md))
- Authors: [Emil Cioran](https://www.bookquiver.com/emil-cioran)
- Publisher: Penguin
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-02-4146-728-2
- Published: 2020-10-29
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: E-book

## Description

'Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately it is within no one's reach.' In The Trouble With Being Born , E. M. Cioran grapples with the major questions of human existence: birth, death, God, the passing of time, how to relate to others and how to make ourselves get out of bed in the morning. In a series of interlinking aphorisms which are at once pessimistic, poetic and extremely funny, Cioran finds a kind of joy in his own despair, revelling in the absurdity and futility of our existence, and our inability to live in the world. Translated by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and critic Richard Howard, The Trouble With Being Born is a provocative, illuminating testament to a singular mind.