Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself — there is no wish… — Emile M. Cioran Mind Copy Share Image
To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts. — Emile M. Cioran Baseness 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
The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell. — Emile M. Cioran Demand 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
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
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all… — Emile M. Cioran Aphorism Copy Share Image
If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he… — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of… — Emile M. Cioran Abandon Copy Share Image
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. — Emile M. Cioran Civilized Copy Share Image
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. — Emile M. Cioran Books Copy Share Image
That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. — Emile M. Cioran Goal Copy Share Image
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. — Emile M. Cioran Everything Copy Share Image
What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being… — Emile M. Cioran Book 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
When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to… — Emile M. Cioran Appearance Copy Share Image
Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of… — Emile M. Cioran Chance Copy Share Image
What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots. — Emile M. Cioran Country 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
Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any… — Emile M. Cioran Events 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 Accept Copy Share Image
To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. — Emile M. Cioran Envy Copy Share Image
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin. — Emile M. Cioran Appetite 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
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed? — Emile M. Cioran Aberration Copy Share Image
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it,… — Emile M. Cioran Chemistry Copy Share Image
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. — Emile M. Cioran Country Copy Share Image
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love. — Emile M. Cioran Inspirational Copy Share Image
Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated… — Emile M. Cioran Funny Copy Share Image
Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity… — Emile M. Cioran Come up Copy Share Image
