“Stoicism for show: to be an enthusiast of nil admirari, an hysteric of ataraxia.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“You with your veins full of night — you have no more place among men than an epitaph in the middle of… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Mystery — a word we use to deceive others, to convince them we are "deeper" than they are.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“What are the occupations of the sage? He resigns himself to seeing, to eating, etc…., he accepts in spite of himself this… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“If we do not regard ourselves as entrusted with a mission, existence is difficult; action, impossible.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual,… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't get over… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“If I reflect on any moment of my life, the most feverish or the most neutral, what remains? — and what difference is there… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“You’re against everything that’s been done since the last war,” said the very up-to-date lady. “You’ve got the wrong date: I’m against everything that’s… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“Every form of haste, even toward the good, betrays some mental disorder.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
“Truth remains hidden to the man filled with desire and hatred” (Buddha)…. Which is to say, to every man alive.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share
