Acquaintance Quote by Emile M. Cioran

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

— Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

— Emile M. Cioran

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell

— Emile M. Cioran

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

— Emile M. Cioran

"The Holy Ghost," Luther instructs us, "is not a skeptic." Not everyone can be, and that is really too bad.

— Emile M. Cioran

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!

— Emile M. Cioran

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

— Emile M. Cioran

If each of us were to confess his most secret desire, the one that inspires all his plans, all his actions, he would say:…

— Emile M. Cioran

He who hates himself is not humble.

— Emile M. Cioran

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed…

— Emile M. Cioran

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

— Emile M. Cioran

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

— Emile M. Cioran