A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect. — Emile M. Cioran Advice Copy Share Image
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. — Emile M. Cioran Mean 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
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the… — Emile M. Cioran Citizens Copy Share Image
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. — Emile M. Cioran Flesh Copy Share Image
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within. — Emile M. Cioran Chains Copy Share Image
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom? — Emile M. Cioran Boredom Copy Share Image
In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws. — Emile M. Cioran Democracy 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
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
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
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
I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. — Emile M. Cioran Dream Copy Share Image
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation. — Emile M. Cioran Fruit Copy Share Image
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call… — Emile M. Cioran Animal 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
Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within… — Emile M. Cioran Fear Copy Share Image
Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe,… — Emile M. Cioran Accents 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
