Best Emile M. Cioran Quotes
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The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Attention
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I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Best
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A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Golden
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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
All
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Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.
Embittered
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Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Cannot Open
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The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Existence
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Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.
Anyone
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Always Preferable
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Begin
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You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry,…
Chemistry
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Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Accomplish
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A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Civilization
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Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Conscious
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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
Accompanied
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Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Apart
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God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Cured
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Among
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So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Flourishes
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The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Deceived
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We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Country
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We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
Inspirational
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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Beings
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Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no…
Constant
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A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Aggregate
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