Emil Cioran Quotes
- However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried…
- I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
- I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.
- The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
- Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
- Injustice constitutes the essence of social life.