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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
Extraordinary and null - these two adjectives apply to the sexual act, and, consequently, to everything resulting from it, to life first of all.
— Emil Cioran
I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
— Emile M. Cioran
Tears do not burn except in solitude.
— Emil M. Cioran
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
And who was ever bold enough to do nothing because every action is senseless in infinity?
— Emil Cioran
The mind advances only if it has the patience to go in circles, in other words, to deepen.
— Emil Cioran
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
— Emile M. Cioran
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
— Emile M. Cioran
Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.
— Emile M. Cioran
What is pity but the vice of kindness.
— Emile M. Cioran
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
— Emile M. Cioran
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
— Emile M. Cioran
Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.
— Emile M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
— Emile M. Cioran
The poor maidservant who used to say that she only believed in God when she had a toothache puts all theologians to shame.
— Emil M. Cioran
Once I had a "self"; now I am no more than an object.
— Emil M. Cioran
We change ideas like neckties.
— Emile M. Cioran
We are all geniuses when we dream.
— Emile M. Cioran
A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.
— Emile M. Cioran
To claim you are more detached, more alien to everything than anyone, and to be merely a fanatic of indifference!
— Emil Cioran
One should live and die where one was born ... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?
— Emil Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
— Emil Cioran
My mission is to see things as they are. Exactly contrary of a mission.
— Emile M. Cioran
The more intense a spiritual leader's appetite for power, the more he is concerned to limit it to others.
— Emile M. Cioran
Some of Mozart's Andantes emanate an ethereal desolation, a sort of dream funeral in another life.
— Emil Cioran
I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
— Emil Cioran
Any and all water is the color of drowning.
— Emil M. Cioran
We are ourselves only by the sum of our failures.
— Emil Cioran
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
— Emile M. Cioran
An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.
— Emile M. Cioran
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
— Emil Cioran
It takes an enormous humility to die. The strange thing is that everyone turns out to have it!
— Emil Cioran
As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.
— Emil Cioran
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— Emile M. Cioran
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
— Emile M. Cioran
To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.
— Emile M. Cioran
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
— Emile M. Cioran
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
— Emile M. Cioran
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
— Emile M. Cioran
My vision of the future is so exact that if I had children, I should strangle them here and now.
— Emil Cioran
Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
— Emil Cioran
The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
— Emil Cioran
Normal people have nothing to forget.
— Emile M. Cioran
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
— Emile M. Cioran
Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.
— Emil Cioran
In all the edifices of thought, I have found no category on which to rest my head. Whereas Chaos - there's a pillow!
— Emil Cioran
Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.
— Emil Cioran
One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.
— Emil Cioran
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
— Emile M. Cioran
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
— Emile M. Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
— Emile M. Cioran
The deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.
— Emil Cioran
What they ask you for is actions, proofs, works, and all you can produce are transformed tears.
— Emil Cioran
My greed for agonies has made me die so many times that it strikes me as indecent to keep on abusing a corpse from which I can get nothing more.
— Emil M. Cioran
I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.
— Emil Cioran
The dead center of existence: when it is all the same to you whether you read a newspaper article or think about God.
— Emil Cioran
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
— Emile M. Cioran
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
— Emile M. Cioran
If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
— Emile M. Cioran
Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream or turn you to stone.
— Emil M. Cioran
We are fulfilled only when we aspire to nothing, when we are impregnated by that nothing to the point of intoxication.
— Emil Cioran
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— Emile M. Cioran
There was a time when time did not yet exist. ... The rejection of birth is nothing but the nostalgia for this time before time.
— Emil Cioran
If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.
— Emile M. Cioran
For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises it so that he won't collapse.
— Emil Cioran
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
— Emile M. Cioran
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
All philosophers should end their days at Pythia's feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.
— Emile M. Cioran
By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.
— Emile M. Cioran
Only god has the privilege of abandoning us. Men can only drop us
— Emil M. Cioran
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
— Emile M. Cioran
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
— Emil Cioran
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
— Emile M. Cioran
Cioran, bureaucratic heart of the Empire. Or if not heart, kidney. Maybe small bowel.
— James S.A. Corey
The more we frequent men, the blacker our thoughts; and when, to clarify them, we return to our solitude, we find there the shadow they have cast.
— Emil M. Cioran
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula ... to give a facade tot he void.
— Emile M. Cioran
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
— Emile M. Cioran
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
— Emile M. Cioran
For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.
— Emile M. Cioran
All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers.
— Emile M. Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
— Emile M. Cioran