What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. — Emile M. Cioran Interest Copy Share Image
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran Despair Copy Share Image
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime... — Emile M. Cioran Country Copy Share Image
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. — Emile M. Cioran Crime Copy Share Image
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain… — Emile M. Cioran Age Copy Share Image
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow. — Emile M. Cioran Consequence Copy Share Image
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. — Emile M. Cioran Book Copy Share Image
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Advice Copy Share Image
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How… — Emile M. Cioran Beauty Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call… — Emile M. Cioran Animal Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within… — Emile M. Cioran Fear Copy Share Image
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
