“Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Mine still, this moment passes by, escapes me, and is buried forever. Am I going to commit myself with the next? I… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Deep inside, each man feels — and believes — himself to be immortal, even if he knows he will perish the next… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“My soul is chaos, how can it be at all? There is everything in me: search and you will find out ...… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“With sufficient perspective, nothing is good or bad. The historian who ventures to judge the past is writing journalism in another century.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I am stirred, even overwhelmed each time I happen upon an innocent person. Where does he come from? What is he after?… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Nescience is the basis of everything, it creates everything by an action repeated every moment, it produces this and any world, since… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“If I reflect on any moment of my life, the most feverish or the most neutral, what remains? — and what difference… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“A privilege to live in conflict with one’s times. At every moment one is aware one does not think like the others.… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“To have opinions is inevitable, is natural; to have convictions is less so. Each time I meet someone who has convictions, I… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“A foretold misfortune, when at last it occurs, is ten, is a hundred times harder to endure than one we did not… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“There’s no help for it,” the nonagenarian kept repeating to whatever I said, to whatever I shouted into her ear concerning the… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“When I happen to be busy, I never give a moment’s thought to the “meaning” of anything, particularly of whatever it is… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I have never known a single sensation of fulfillment, of true happiness, without thinking that it was the moment when — now… — 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
