One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. — Emile M. Cioran Country 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
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are… — Emile M. Cioran Anchors Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Book Copy Share Image
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young. — Emile M. Cioran Ardor Copy Share Image
Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence. — Emile M. Cioran Disgusting 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
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. — Emile M. Cioran Philosopher Copy Share Image
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Freedom Copy Share Image
If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. — Emile M. Cioran Crime Copy Share Image
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be… — Emile M. Cioran Business Copy Share Image
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day.… — Emile M. Cioran Begets Copy Share Image
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. — Emile M. Cioran Adventure Copy Share Image
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. — Emile M. Cioran Demand Copy Share Image
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Incapacity Copy Share Image
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. — Emile M. Cioran Democracy Copy Share Image
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain… — Emile M. Cioran Age Copy Share Image
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran Firsts Copy Share Image
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. — Emile M. Cioran Believe Copy Share Image
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. — Emile M. Cioran Civilization 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
