Emil Cioran's Quotes

Emil Cioran's Quotes 25

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How...

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one...

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is...

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Think of God and not religion, of ecstasy and not mysticism. The difference...

"Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece ?n ele avem ?n...

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live-moreover, the only one.

Nu pot fi eu insumi decat daca ma inalt pana la furie sau cobor pana la...

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when...

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come...

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

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