“To be “happy” you must constantly bear in mind the miseries you have escaped. This would be a way for memory to… — Emil M. Cioran Happiness Copy Share Image
“For the victim of anxiety, there is no difference between success and fiasco. His reaction to the one is the same as… — Emil M. Cioran Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Noble gestures are always suspect. Each time, we regret having committed them. Something false about them, something theatrical, attitudinizing. It is true… — Emil M. Cioran Regret Copy Share Image
“I believe speech to be a recent invention, and find it hard to imagine a dialogue that dates back beyond ten thousand… — Emil M. Cioran Communication Copy Share Image
“I am stirred, even overwhelmed each time I happen upon an innocent person. Where does he come from? What is he after?… — Emil M. Cioran Apparition Copy Share Image
“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“As far back as I can remember, I’ve utterly destroyed within myself the pride of being human. And I saunter to the… — Emil M. Cioran All-gall-is-divided 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
“Nescience is the basis of everything, it creates everything by an action repeated every moment, it produces this and any world, since… — Emil M. Cioran Every moment 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“The mind that puts everything in question reaches, after a thousand interrogations, an almost total inertia, a situation which the inert, in… — Emil M. Cioran Inertia Copy Share Image
“When someone complains that his life has come to nothing, we need merely remind him that life itself is in an analogous… — Emil M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“The best of myself, that point of light which distances me from everything, I owe to my infrequent encounters with a few… — Emil M. Cioran All-gall-is-divided Copy Share Image
“Deep inside, each man feels — and believes — himself to be immortal, even if he knows he will perish the next… — Emil M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
“Mine still, this moment passes by, escapes me, and is buried forever. Am I going to commit myself with the next? I… — Emil M. Cioran Moment Copy Share Image
“We make choices, decisions, as long as we keep to the surface of things; once we reach the depths, we can neither… — Emil M. Cioran Choice Copy Share Image
“To hell with everything" — if these words have been uttered, even only once, coldly, with complete awareness of what they mean,… — Emil M. Cioran History Copy Share Image
“The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there… — Emil M. Cioran All-gall-is-divided 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
“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
