To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his? — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.” — Emile M. Cioran Madman Copy Share Image
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. — Emile M. Cioran 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
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
On Creating — What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay… — Emile M. Cioran Communication 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
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about… — Emile M. Cioran Death Copy Share Image
All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How… — Emile M. Cioran Beauty Copy Share Image
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day.… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our… — Emile M. Cioran 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
After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation,… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of… — Emile M. Cioran Action Copy Share Image
In most cases we attach ourselves to in order to take revenge on life, to punish it, to signify we can do… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
