Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Belief Copy Share Image
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. — Emile M. Cioran Consciousness Copy Share Image
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. — Emile M. Cioran Civilization Copy Share Image
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran Epilepsy Copy Share Image
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. — Emile M. Cioran God Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Freedom Copy Share Image
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Accents Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there… — Emile M. Cioran Disaster Copy Share Image
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a… — Emile M. Cioran Age Copy Share Image
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. — Emile M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran Ardor Copy Share Image
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran Betrayal Copy Share Image
Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Decision Copy Share Image
