There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom. — Emile M. Cioran Boredom Copy Share Image
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. — Emile M. Cioran Commit Copy Share Image
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. — Emile M. Cioran Revenge Copy Share Image
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. — Emile M. Cioran Every man Copy Share Image
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter. — Emile M. Cioran Always Copy Share Image
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea. — Emile M. Cioran Fallen Copy Share Image
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
No human beings are more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief — Emile M. Cioran Belief 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
A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Advice Copy Share Image
What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts. — Emile M. Cioran Failing Copy Share Image
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous. — Emile M. Cioran Book 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
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
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 Alcoholic Copy Share Image
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness. — Emile M. Cioran Life Copy Share Image
No one can do without some semblance of immortality, and even less will they deny themselves the right to seek it out… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second… — Emile M. Cioran Beads Copy Share Image
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
Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the… — Emile M. Cioran Darkness Copy Share Image
Ideas should be neutral. But man animates them with his passions and folly. Impure and turned into beliefs, they take on the… — Emile M. Cioran Appearance 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
A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime... — Emile M. Cioran Country 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
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. — Emile M. Cioran Despair Copy Share Image
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. — Emile M. Cioran Cured Copy Share Image
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. — Emile M. Cioran Destroying Copy Share Image
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. — Emile M. Cioran Addict Copy Share Image
Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. — Emile M. Cioran Being yourself Copy Share Image
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. — Emile M. Cioran Bother Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Atheism 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
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires. — Emile M. Cioran Authority Copy Share Image
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran Ideas Copy Share Image
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment. — Emile M. Cioran Accomplishment Copy Share Image
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. — Emile M. Cioran Spot Copy Share Image
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up. — Emile M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
