To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do… — Emile M. Cioran 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 Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — 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
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — 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 Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death! — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran 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 would say:… — Emile M. Cioran 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 have killed… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
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