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> [“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being inconspicuous, occasional, is massive, automatic, at the antipodes of its essentially delicate nature. Which in any…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/nothing-more-aggravating-than-a-seamless-unremitting-irony-which/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

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## More by Emil M. Cioran

> [“If we do not regard ourselves as entrusted with a mission, existence is difficult; action, impossible.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/if-we-do-not-regard-ourselves-as-entrusted-with-a-mission-existence/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/in-the-fact-of-being-born-there-is-such-an-absence-of-necessity-that/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't get over…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/filming-a-scene-there-are-countless-takes-of-the-same-incident/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“If I reflect on any moment of my life, the most feverish or the most neutral, what remains? — and what difference is there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/if-i-reflect-on-any-moment-of-my-life-the-most-feverish-or-the-most/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“You’re against everything that’s been done since the last war,” said the very up-to-date lady. “You’ve got the wrong date: I’m against everything that’s…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/you-re-against-everything-that-s-been-done-since-the-last-war-said/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/call-it-insensitivity-or-a-passion-for-remorse-i-have-never/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/nothing-more-aggravating-than-a-seamless-unremitting-irony-which/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/what-makes-bad-poets-worse-is-that-they-read-only-poets-just-as-bad/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/the-worst-crimes-are-committed-out-of-enthusiasm-a-morbid-state/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/there-is-nothing-to-say-about-anything-so-there-can-be-no-limit-to/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“Every form of haste, even toward the good, betrays some mental disorder.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/every-form-of-haste-even-toward-the-good-betrays-some-mental-disorder/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/the-emphasis-on-birth-is-no-more-than-the-craving-for-the-insoluble/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/there-are-nights-that-the-most-ingenious-torturers-could-not-have/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“When I torment myself a little too much for not working, I tell myself that I might just as well be dead and that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/when-i-torment-myself-a-little-too-much-for-not-working-i-tell-myself/)

[Emil M. Cioran](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emil-m-cioran/)

> [“Truth remains hidden to the man filled with desire and hatred” (Buddha)…. Which is to say, to every man alive.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emil-m-cioran/truth-remains-hidden-to-the-man-filled-with-desire-and-hatred-buddha/)

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