To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent… — Emile M. Cioran Consent Copy Share Image
If we had the courage to confront the doubts we timidly conceive about ourselves, none of us would utter an 'I' without… — Emile M. Cioran Courage Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity… — Emile M. Cioran Come up Copy Share Image
I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my… — Emile M. Cioran Awareness Copy Share Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How… — Emile M. Cioran Beauty Copy Share Image
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation. — Emile M. Cioran Function Copy Share Image
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. — Emile M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. — Emile M. Cioran Boredom Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Belief Copy Share Image
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to… — Emile M. Cioran Appearance Copy Share Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Baseness Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Chance Copy Share Image
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow. — Emile M. Cioran Consequence Copy Share Image
Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people? If we attended more… — Emile M. Cioran Aggression 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
Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations are engulfed in a… — Emile M. Cioran Age Copy Share Image
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. — Emile M. Cioran Anxiety Copy Share Image
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. — Emile M. Cioran Accomplishment 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
