Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin… — Emile M. Cioran Born Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Abandon Copy Share Image
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does… — Emile M. Cioran Doe Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they… — Emile M. Cioran Contradictory Copy Share Image
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed… — Emile M. Cioran Betrayed Copy Share Image
The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity. — Emile M. Cioran Amount Copy Share Image
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. — Emile M. Cioran Everyday Copy Share Image
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time. — Emile M. Cioran Business Copy Share Image
If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight… — Emile M. Cioran Alcoholics 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
Tragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration. — Emile M. Cioran Duration Copy Share Image
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. — Emile M. Cioran Art Copy Share Image
The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity. — Emile M. Cioran Freedom Copy Share Image
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran Aphorism Copy Share Image
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. — Emile M. Cioran Aversion Copy Share Image
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Civilized Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. — Emile M. Cioran Interest 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
