So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. — Emile M. Cioran Function Copy Share Image
Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught. — Emile M. Cioran Ideas 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
My enthusiasms...constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future. — Emile M. Cioran Enthusiasm Copy Share Image
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time. — Emile M. Cioran Business Copy Share Image
We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering. — Emile M. Cioran Believe Copy Share Image
For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Freedom Copy Share Image
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time. — Emile M. Cioran Hours Copy Share Image
History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before… — Emile M. Cioran Absolutes Copy Share Image
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. — Emile M. Cioran God Copy Share Image
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so… — Emile M. Cioran Appeals Copy Share Image
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with… — Emile M. Cioran Easy Copy Share Image
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. — Emile M. Cioran Epilepsy 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 Choose 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 Deep Copy Share Image
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. — Emile M. Cioran Born Copy Share Image
Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. — Emile M. Cioran Impostor Copy Share Image
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Delight Copy Share Image
An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it. — Emile M. Cioran Aphorism Copy Share Image
Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful. — Emile M. Cioran Bitter Copy Share Image
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive. — Emile M. Cioran Alive Copy Share Image
Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it. — Emile M. Cioran Bother Copy Share Image
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! — Emile M. Cioran Enchanted Copy Share Image
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. — Emile M. Cioran Calling Copy Share Image
True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats. — Emile M. Cioran Art Copy Share Image
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. — Emile M. Cioran Anxiety Copy Share Image
If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God. — Emile M. Cioran Bach 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
Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity. — Emile M. Cioran Compromise Copy Share Image
True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward… — Emile M. Cioran Communication Copy Share Image
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they… — Emile M. Cioran Contradictory 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
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
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed… — Emile M. Cioran Betrayed Copy Share Image
"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad. — Emile M. Cioran Atheism Copy Share Image
Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely… — Emile M. Cioran Accomplish Copy Share Image
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite Copy Share Image
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. — Emile M. Cioran Comfortable Copy Share Image
