Emil Cioran Quotes
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The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.
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Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
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Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.
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The worst is not ennui nor despair but their encounter, their collision. To be crushed between the two!
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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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Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
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Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.
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Once man loses his faculty of indifference he becomes a potential murderer; once he transforms his idea into a god the consequences are incalculable. We kill only in the name of a god or of his counterfeits: the excesses provoked by the goddess Reason, by the concept of nation, class, or race are akin to those of the Inquisition or of the Reformation.
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I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.
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Eternity is absence.
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No longer ask me for my program: isn't breathing one?
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There is always someone above you: beyond God Himself rises Nothingness.
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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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The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
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How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.
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Revenge is not always sweet: once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
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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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If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say: "I want to be praised."
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I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
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Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
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We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
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They ask you for facts, proofs, works, and all you can show them are transformed tears.