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
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. — Emile M. Cioran Dream 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
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. — Emile M. Cioran Ideas Copy Share Image
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity. — Emile M. Cioran Despair Copy Share Image
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach. — Emile M. Cioran Best laid plans Copy Share Image
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. — Emile M. Cioran God Copy Share Image
It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. The man who does not consent to lie will see… — Emile M. Cioran Endure Copy Share Image
Freedom can be manifested only in the void of beliefs, in the absence of axioms, and only where the laws have no… — Emile M. Cioran Absence 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
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have… — Emile M. Cioran Dies Copy Share Image
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty. — Emile M. Cioran Abuse Copy Share Image
A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice. — Emile M. Cioran Betrayal Copy Share Image
To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence. — Emile M. Cioran Accepting Copy Share Image
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws. — Emile M. Cioran Easy Copy Share Image
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. — Emile M. Cioran Disaster Copy Share Image
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates. — Emile M. Cioran Hairdresser Copy Share Image
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission. — Emile M. Cioran Atheism Copy Share Image
Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real… — Emile M. Cioran Accessories Copy Share Image
Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it. — Emile M. Cioran Boredom Copy Share Image
Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. — Emile M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
