Emil Cioran Quotes
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Every utopia about to be realized resembles a cynical dream.
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Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.
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I believe in the salvation of humanity, in the future of cyanide...
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'Neither this world, nor the next, nor happiness are for the being abandoned to doubt.' - This point in the Gita is my death sentence.
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The wrinkles of a nation are as visible as those of an individual.
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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
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Try to be free: you will die of hunger.
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Transmitting one's flaws through procreation to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would inherent my ailments.
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We are all deep in a hell each moment of which is a miracle.
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To win the guilty kiss of a saint, I'd welcome the plague as a blessing
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I am for the most part so convinced that everything is lacking in basis, consequence, justification, that if someone dared to contradict me, even the man I most admire, he would seem to me a charlatan or a fool.
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Only optimists commit suicide, the optimists who can no longer be...optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why should they have any to die?
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It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice.
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
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One would have to be as unenlightened as an angel or an idiot to imagine that the human escapade could turn out well.
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The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
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Love of the absolute engenders a predilection for self-destruction. Hence the passion for monasteries and brothels. Cells and women, in both cases. Weariness with life fares well in the shadow of whores and saintly women.
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Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?
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Without will, no conflict: no tragedy among the abulic. Yet the failure of will can be experienced more painfully than a tragic destiny.
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A man does not kill himself, as is commonly supposed, in a fit of madness but rather in a fit of unendurable lucidity, in a paroxysm which may, if so desired, be identified with madness; for an excessive perspicacity, carried to the limit and of which one longs to be rid at all costs, exceeds the context of reason.
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Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.
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What a judgment upon the living, if it is true, as has been maintained, that what dies has never existed!
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Everything is nothing, including the consciousness of nothing.
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Eternity is absence.