What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? — Emile M. Cioran Insect Copy Share Image
“We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.” — Emile M. Cioran Madman Copy Share Image
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran Deficiency Copy Share Image
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emile M. Cioran Dream Copy Share Image
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation. — Emile M. Cioran Fruit Copy Share Image
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. — Emile M. Cioran Concession Copy Share Image
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. — Emile M. Cioran Arms Copy Share Image
The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost. — Emile M. Cioran Curtains 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 Disgust 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
To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of… — Emile M. Cioran Aggression 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
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
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
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
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
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 only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there… — Emile M. Cioran Disaster Copy Share Image
The truly solitary being is not the man who is abandoned by men, but the man who suffers in their midst, who… — Emile M. Cioran Abandoned Copy Share Image
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Accents Copy Share Image
Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. — Emile M. Cioran Decision Copy Share Image
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran Betrayal Copy Share Image
Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other. — Emile M. Cioran Appeals Copy Share Image
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping. — Emile M. Cioran Hoping Copy Share Image
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. — Emile M. Cioran Better Copy Share Image
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. — Emile M. Cioran Interest Copy Share Image
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men. — Emile M. Cioran Grudge Copy Share Image
He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. — Emile M. Cioran Drama Copy Share Image
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. — Emile M. Cioran Cutting Copy Share Image
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. — Emile M. Cioran Mean Copy Share Image
