I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated… — Emile M. Cioran Funny Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. — Emile M. Cioran Country Copy Share Image
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it,… — Emile M. Cioran Chemistry Copy Share Image
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? — Emile M. Cioran Aberration Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Abuse Copy Share Image
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran Envy Copy Share Image
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Atheism Copy Share Image
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this… — Emile M. Cioran Attention Copy Share Image
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. — Emile M. Cioran Art Copy Share Image
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran Hairdresser Copy Share Image
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran Compromise Copy Share Image
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward… — Emile M. Cioran Communication Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all… — Emile M. Cioran Aphorism Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he… — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran Boredom Copy Share Image
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. — Emile M. Cioran Demand Copy Share Image
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than… — Emile M. Cioran Hope Copy Share Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Baseness Copy Share Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish… — Emile M. Cioran Mind Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
