I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Read Copy Share Image
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Assert Copy Share Image
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran Ardor Copy Share Image
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran Flesh Copy Share Image
To read is to let someone else work for you - the most delicate form of exploitation. — Emile M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Dream Copy Share Image
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece. — Emile M. Cioran Disintegration Copy Share Image
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. — Emile M. Cioran Feels Copy Share Image
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. — Emile M. Cioran Concern Copy Share Image
The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest. — Emile M. Cioran Form Copy Share Image
There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more… — Emile M. Cioran Absurdity Copy Share Image
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on… — Emile M. Cioran Exclamation Copy Share Image
Transmitting one's flaws [through procreation] to someone else is a crime. I could never consent to give life to someone who would… — Emile M. Cioran Ailments Copy Share Image
Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within… — Emile M. Cioran Fear Copy Share Image
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the… — Emile M. Cioran Citizens Copy Share Image
Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the… — Emile M. Cioran Accounts Copy Share Image
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real… — Emile M. Cioran Accessories Copy Share Image
No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not… — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Associates Copy Share Image
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is… — Emile M. Cioran Desire Copy Share Image
The reaction against your own thought in itself lends life to thought. How this reaction is born is hard to describe, because… — Emile M. Cioran Born Copy Share Image
Consider love: is there a nobler outpouring, a rapture less suspect? Its shudders rival music, compete with the tears of solitude and… — Emile M. Cioran Ardor Copy Share Image
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