“My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Our obsession with birth, by shifting us to a point before our past, robs us of our pleasure in the future, in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Essentially, boredom is centered upon time, on the horror of time, on the fear of time, the disclosure of time, the awareness… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The notion of nothingness is not characteristic of laboring humanity: those who toil have neither time nor inclination to weigh their dust;… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“At the climax of failure, at the moment when shame is about to do us in, suddenly we are swept away by… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Having discovered, at the end of her efforts, the realm of non-will, she rejoices, for she knows now that her ruin conceals… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“As the years accumulate, we form an increasingly somber image of the future. Is this only to console ourselves for being excluded… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of his work, something… — emil cioran Copy Share Image
“In itself, every idea is neutral, or should be; but man animates ideas, projects his flames and flaws into them; impure, transformed… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“Natura s-a arătat darnică numai cu cei pe care i-a scutit de obsesia morţii. Dacă-i firesc să mori, nu-i deloc firesc să zaboveşti asupra… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu? — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“I cannot imagine that there could be someone whose childhood could compare to mine. The sky and the earth belonged to me, literally, even… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“Dispretul oamenilor ma intareste, si nu le cer decat o favoare - sa nu insemn nimic in ochii lor.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“Nobody would dare look at himself in the mirror, because a grotesque, tragic image would mix in the contours of his face with stains… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
“Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to… — Emil Cioran Copy Share
