Hope Quote by Emil M. Cioran

“If we do not regard ourselves as entrusted with a mission, existence is difficult; action, impossible.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“In the fact of being born there is such an absence of necessity that when you think about it a little more than usual,…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Filming a scene, there are countless takes of the same incident. Someone watching in the street - obviously a provincial - can't get over…

— Emil M. Cioran

“If I reflect on any moment of my life, the most feverish or the most neutral, what remains? — and what difference is there…

— Emil M. Cioran

“You’re against everything that’s been done since the last war,” said the very up-to-date lady. “You’ve got the wrong date: I’m against everything that’s…

— Emil M. Cioran

“Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being…

— Emil M. Cioran

“What makes bad poets worse is that they read only poets (just as bad philosophers read only philosophers), whereas they would benefit much more…

— Emil M. Cioran

“The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“There is nothing to say about anything. So there can be no limit to the number of books.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“Every form of haste, even toward the good, betrays some mental disorder.”

— Emil M. Cioran

“The emphasis on birth is no more than the craving for the insoluble carried to the point of insanity.”

— Emil M. Cioran