Emil Cioran Quotes
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What is that one crucifixion compared to the daily kind any insomniac endures?
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What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
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The only subversive mind is the one that questions the obligation to exist; all the others, the anarchist at the top of the list, compromise with the established order.
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To suffer is to produce knowledge.
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What I know wreaks havoc upon what I want.
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In the torments of the intellect, there is a certain bearing which is to be sought in vain among those of the heart. Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety.
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It's not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
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As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
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At different degrees, everything is pathology, except for indifference.
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Read day and night, devour books-these sleeping pills-not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.
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I find in myself as much evil as in anyone, but detesting action - mother of all vices - I am the cause of no one's suffering.
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
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We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.
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Why do you lack the strength to escape the obligation to breathe?
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Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
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Two enemies - the same man divided.
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What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
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Boredom is a larval anxiety; depression, a dreamy hatred.
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After all, why should ordinary people want to contemplate the End, especially when we see the condition of those who do?
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The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.
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For a long time-always, in fact-I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.