“Every work turns against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The only interesting philosophers are the ones who have stopped thinking and have begun to search for happiness.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“If, as Moses Mendelssohn maintains, Judaism is not a religion but a revealed legislation, it seems strange that such a God should… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The moments of refinement conceal a death-principle: nothing is more fragile than subtlety. The abuse of it leads to the catechisms, an… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The tired intellectual sums up the deformities and the vices of a world adrift. He does not act, he suffers; if he… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“During the long nights in the caves, how many Hamlets must have murmured their endless monologues—for it is likely that the apogee… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Each opinion, each view is necessarily partial, truncated, inadequate. In philosophy and in anything, originality comes down to incomplete definitions.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“The idea of the Eternal Return can be fully grasped only by a man endowed with several chronic, hence recurrent infirmities, and… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“I hate wise men because they are lazy, cowardly, and prudent. To the philosophers' equanimity, which makes them indifferent to both pleasure… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la descurajare: la nivelul meu obisnuit, ignor… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“In numele si sub teroarea ei (plictiselii, n.m.) parasesc oamenii caminul si moartea agreabila legata de el si se avanta in lume,… — 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
