“Nobody would dare look at himself in the mirror, because a grotesque, tragic image would mix in the contours of his face… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“What would happen if a man's face could adequately express his suffering, if his entire inner agony would be objectified in his… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“But where is the antidote for lucid despair, perfectly articulated, proud, and sure? All of us are miserable, but how many know… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful surprise and… — 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
“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
“Try as we will to take the “cure” of ineffectuality; to meditate on the Taoist fathers’ doctrine of submission, of withdrawal, 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
“Dispretul oamenilor ma intareste, si nu le cer decat o favoare - sa nu insemn nimic in ochii lor.” — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Nobody would dare look at himself in the mirror, because a grotesque, tragic image would mix in the contours of his face with stains… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
“Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to… — Emil Cioran Copy Share Image
