“Extraordinary and null—these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“All knowledge pushed to its limit can be dangerous, and morbid, because life is endurable solely because we don't see it through… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Someday the old shack we call the world will fall apart. How, we don’t know, and we don’t really care either. Since… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Animal banished from life, man's condition is tragic, for he no longer finds fulfillment in life's simple values. For animals, life is… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing it. Becoming: an agony… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Even in childhood I watched the hours flow, independent of any reference, any action, any event, the disjunction of time from what… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“To see things as they really are renders life almost completely intolerable. Myself because I have, I believe, at least in part,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Only those are happy who never think or, rather, who only think about life's bare necessities, and to think about such things… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Nobility is only in the negation of existence, in a smile that surveys annihilated landscapes.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“To grant life more importance than it has is the mistake committed in sagging systems; as a consequence, no one is ready… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“By capitulating to life, this world has betrayed nothingness. . . . I resign from movement, and from my dreams. Absence! You… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh, scream in… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“While they were preparing the hemlock, Socrates was learning how to play a new tune on the flute. “What will be the… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There are no arguments. Can anyone who has reached the limit bother with arguments, causes, effects, moral considerations, and so forth? Of… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Eu nu am idei ci obsesii. Idei poate avea oricine. Nimeni nu s-a prăbușit din cauza ideilor.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“For a long while I have lived with the notion that I was the most normal being that ever existed. This notion gave me… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“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 zaboveşti asupra… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“We had nothing to say to one another, and while I was manufacturing my phrases I felt that earth was falling through space and… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined with a taste… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“His power to adore is responsible for all his crimes: a man who loves a god unduly forces other men to love his god,… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu? — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“I cannot imagine that there could be someone whose childhood could compare to mine. The sky and the earth belonged to me, literally, even… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
