It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. — Emile M. Cioran Bother Copy Share Image
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. — Emile M. Cioran Consciousness Copy Share Image
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation. — Emile M. Cioran Philosophy of Mind Copy Share Image
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this… — Emile M. Cioran Attention Copy Share Image
What a pity that 'nothingness' has been devalued by an abuse of it made by philosophers unworthy of it! — Emile M. Cioran Abuse 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
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
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual. — Emile M. Cioran Intellectual Copy Share Image
“We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.” — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. — Emile M. Cioran Calling Copy Share Image
The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone. — Emile M. Cioran Art Copy Share Image
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,… — Emile M. Cioran Answers Copy Share Image
To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the… — Emile M. Cioran Consciousness 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
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames. — Emile M. Cioran Buried Copy Share Image
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than… — Emile M. Cioran Hope Copy Share Image
I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. — Emile M. Cioran Believe 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
