Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there. — Emile M. Cioran Dies Copy Share Image
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran Envy Copy Share Image
To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. — Emile M. Cioran Blow Copy Share Image
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran Compromise Copy Share Image
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran Deficiency Copy Share Image
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. — Emile M. Cioran Function Copy Share Image
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. — Emile M. Cioran Believe Copy Share Image
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Everything Copy Share Image
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. — Emile M. Cioran Conscious Copy Share Image
I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a… — Emile M. Cioran Conditions 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
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. — Emile M. Cioran Deeper Copy Share Image
Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world. — Emile M. Cioran Desire Copy Share Image
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran Cutting Copy Share Image
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. — Emile M. Cioran Country Copy Share Image
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime... — Emile M. Cioran Country Copy Share Image
