“The mission of Everyman is to fulfill the lies he incarnates, to succeed in being no more than an exhaust illusion.” — Emil M. Cioran Everyman Copy Share Image
“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.” — Emil M. Cioran All-gall-is-divided Copy Share Image
“The more gifted a man is, the less progress he makes on the spiritual level. Talent is an obstacle to the inner… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“I infallibly discern a flaw in all those who are interested in the same things as myself. . . .” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Man accepts death but not the hour of his death. To die any time, except when one has to die!” — Emil M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
“Every friendship is an inconspicuous drama, a series of subtle wounds.” — Emil M. Cioran Friend Copy Share Image
“The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.” — Emil M. Cioran Misfortunes Copy Share Image
“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.” — Emil M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as… — Emil M. Cioran Money Copy Share Image
“As long as you live on this side of the terrible, you will find words to express it; once you know it… — Emil M. Cioran Words Copy Share Image
“Never judge a man without putting yourself in his place.” This old proverb makes all judgment impossible, for we judge someone only… — Emil M. Cioran Judgment Copy Share Image
“The first thinker was, without a doubt, the first man obsessed by why. An unaccustomed mania, not at all contagious: rare indeed… — Emil M. Cioran Thinker Copy Share Image
“She meant absolutely nothing to me. Realizing, suddenly, after so many years, that whatever happens i shall never see her again, I… — Emil M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
“Look neither ahead nor behind, look into yourself, with neither fear nor regret. No one descends into himself so long as he… — Emil M. Cioran Fear Copy Share Image
“The future appeals to you? All yours! Myself I prefer to keep to the incredible present and the incredible past. I leave… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Only normal that man should no longer be interested in religion but in religions, for only through them will he be in… — Emil M. Cioran Religion Copy Share Image
“It is because of speech that men give the illusion of being free. If they did — without a word — what… — Emil M. Cioran Communication Copy Share Image
“Quem não conhece o tédio encontra-se ainda na infância do mundo, quando as idades esperavam para nascer; permanece fechado para este tempo… — Emil M. Cioran Amor Copy Share Image
“Fanaticism is the death of conversation. We do not gossip with a candidate for martyrdom. What are we to say to someone… — Emil M. Cioran Communication Copy Share Image
“O triunfo da não-autenticidade tem seu acabamento na atividade filosófica, esta complacência no ''se'', e na atividade profética (religiosa, moral ou política),… — Emil M. Cioran Amor Copy Share Image
“Existence = Torment. The equation seems obvious to me, but not to one of my friends. How to convince him? I cannot… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“What a bore, someone who doesn’t deign to make an impression. Vain people are almost always annoying, but they make an effort,… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither… — Emil M. Cioran Darkness Copy Share Image
“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit… — Emil M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
“The right to suppress everyone that bothers us should rank first in the constitution of the ideal State.” — Emil M. Cioran Constitution Copy Share Image
“The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.” — Emil M. Cioran Crime Copy Share Image
“The not at all negligible advantage of having greatly hated men is that one comes to endure them by the exhaustion of… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The human being delivered to himself, without any partiality for elegance, is a monster.” — Emil M. Cioran Beauty Copy Share Image
“If disgust for the world conferred sanctity of itself, I fail to see how I could avoid canonization.” — Emil M. Cioran Disgust Copy Share Image
“Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.” — Emil M. Cioran Timidity Copy Share Image
“If you love your independence, you must lend yourself, in order to protect it, to every turpitude; you must risk ignominy itself.” — Emil M. Cioran Freedom Copy Share Image
“The white race increasingly deserves the name given by the American Indians: palefaces.” — Emil M. Cioran Racism Copy Share Image
“Truth remains hidden to the man filled with desire and hatred” (Buddha)…. Which is to say, to every man alive.” — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“That faint light in each of us which dates back to before our birth, to before all births, is what must be… — Emil M. Cioran Light Copy Share Image
“If it is characteristic of the wise man to do nothing useless, no one will surpass me in wisdom: I do not… — Emil M. Cioran Wisdom Copy Share Image
“A little more fervor in my nihilism and I might — gainsaying everything — shake off my doubts and triumph over them.… — Emil M. Cioran All-gall-is-divided Copy Share Image
“Paradox is not suited to burials, nor to weddings or births, in fact. Sinister — or grotesque — events require commonplaces; the… — Emil M. Cioran Marriage Copy Share Image
“After a sleepless night, the people in the street seem automatons. No one seems to breathe, to walk. Each looks as if… — Emil M. Cioran Clockwork Copy Share Image
“However disabused one may be, it is impossible to live without any hope at all. We always keep one, unwittingly, and this… — Emil M. Cioran Hope Copy Share Image
“Existence might well have had some attraction before the advent of noise — let us say, before the neolithic age. When will… — Emil M. Cioran Existence Copy Share Image
