Emil Cioran

“Daca n-ar fi iubit durerea, n-ar fi avut nevoie sa nascoceasca iadul — utopie a suferintei.”

— Emil Cioran

“The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about…

— Emil Cioran

“Fara erori, viata e un bulevard desert prin care evoluezi ca peripatetician al tristetii.”

— Emil Cioran

“Sînt unii oameni atît de prosti, ca de le-ar aparea vreo idee la suprafata creierului ea s-ar sinucide din groaza de singuratate.”

— Emil Cioran

“Characteristic of sickness to stay awake when everything sleeps, when everything is at rest, even the sick man.”

— Emil Cioran

“There are people to whom gain is unimportant, who are hopelessly unhappy and lonely.”

— Emil Cioran

“In flawed families, a scion appears who dedicates himself to the truth and who ruins himself in its pursuit.”

— Emil Cioran

“In all the edifice of thought, I have not found a category upon which to rest my head.”

— Emil Cioran

“For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened. …" No sooner are they…

— Emil Cioran

“I’ve never practiced a profession and have lived like a sort of student. I consider this my greatest success, my life hasn’t…

— Emil Cioran

“I like thought which preserves a whiff of flesh and blood, and I prefer a thousand times an idea rising from sexual…

— Emil Cioran

“Filozofia hindusă urmăreşte eliberarea; a grecilor, cu excepţia lui Pyrrhon, a lui Epicur şi a câtorva inclasificabili, este decepţionată: nu caută decât…

— Emil Cioran

“If death is as horrible as is claimed, how is it that after the passage of a certain period of time we…

— Emil Cioran

“Each time I have a lapse of memory, I think of the anguish which must afflict those who know they no longer…

— Emil Cioran

“Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out…

— Emil Cioran

“If it is true that God dislikes taking sides, I should feel no awkwardness in His presence, so pleased would I be…

— Emil Cioran

“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of…

— Emil Cioran

“We breathe too fast to be able to grasp things in themselves or to expose their fragility. Our panting postulates and distorts…

— Emil Cioran

“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.…

— Emil Cioran

“The tired intellectual sums up the deformities and the vices of a world adrift. He does not act, he suffers; if he…

— Emil Cioran

“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know…

— Emil Cioran

“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You…

— Emil Cioran

“The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who…

— Emil Cioran

“It is our discomforts which provoke, which create consciousness; their task accomplished, they weaken and disappear one after the other. Consciousness however…

— Emil Cioran

“To look for a meaning in anything is less the act of a naif than of a masochist.”

— Emil Cioran

“Frivolous, disconnected, an amateur at everything, I shall have known thoroughly only the disadvantage of having been born.”

— Emil Cioran

“To tell the truth, I couldn't care less about the relativity of knowledge, simply because the world does not deserve to be…

— Emil Cioran

“što nam ljudi više okreću leđa, više rade na našem usavršavanju: napuštajući nas, oni nas spasavaju. ”

— Emil Cioran

“Pentru a scăpa de prea multe gînduri îngrozitoare eu văd multă lume, căci de-aş sta tot timpul singur, nu ştiu ce s-ar…

— Emil Cioran

“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.”

— Emil Cioran

“I very much like this one :" For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything..For us who do it is…

— Emil Cioran

“Why don't I kill myself? If I knew exactly what keeps me from doing so, I should have no more questions to…

— Emil Cioran

“It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!”

— Emil Cioran

“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…

— Emil Cioran

“The feeling of being ten thousand years behind, or ahead, of the others, of belonging to the beginnings or to the end…

— Emil Cioran

“Deceptiile repetate presupun ambitii inumane. Oamenii cu adevarat tristi sint acei care, neputind rasturna totul, s-au acceptat ca ruina a propriului ideal.”

— Emil Cioran

“Kada bih svakog dana imao hrabrosti urlati četvrt sata, bio bih savršeno uravnotežen.”

— Emil Cioran

“Nothing desiccates a mind so much as its repugnance to conceive obscure ideas.”

— Emil Cioran

“I have never taken myself for a being. A non-citizen, a marginal type, a nothing who exists only by the excess, by…

— Emil Cioran

“If I used to ask myself, over a coffin: “What good did it do the occupant to be born?,” I now put…

— Emil Cioran