What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? — Emile M. Cioran Doe Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Commit Copy Share Image
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell — Emile M. Cioran Billions Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Ideas Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Atheism Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about… — Emile M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. — Emile M. Cioran Hell Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he… — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely… — Emile M. Cioran Accomplish Copy Share Image
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Bitter Copy Share Image
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran Addict Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our… — Emile M. Cioran Cost Copy Share Image
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary. — Emile M. Cioran Certain Copy Share Image
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran Ends Copy Share Image
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either… — Emile M. Cioran Cases Copy Share Image
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse. — Emile M. Cioran Democracy Copy Share Image
I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Read Copy Share Image
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. — Emile M. Cioran Pride 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
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our… — Emile M. Cioran Air Copy Share Image
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so… — Emile M. Cioran Appeals Copy Share Image
