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Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
— Emile M. Cioran
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
— Emile M. 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
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
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
— Emile M. Cioran
To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
— Emile M. Cioran
My enthusiasms ... constitute my reserves, my unexploited resources, perhaps my future.
— Emile M. Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
— Emile M. Cioran
Consciousness is nature's nightmare.
— Emile M. Cioran
What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!
— Emile M. Cioran
You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious.
— Emile M. Cioran
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
— Emile M. Cioran
The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?
— 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
Good health is the best weapon against religion. Healthy bodies and healthy minds have never been shaken by religious fears.
— 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
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
— Emile M. Cioran
We change ideas like neckties.
— Emile M. Cioran
We are all geniuses when we dream.
— Emile M. Cioran
By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?
— 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
What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.
— Emile M. Cioran
Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
— Emile M. Cioran
How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.
— Emile M. Cioran
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
— Emile M. 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
To hope is to contradict the future.
— Emile M. Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
— Emile M. Cioran
Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
— Emile M. Cioran
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
— Emile M. Cioran
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
— Emile M. Cioran
In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
— Emile M. Cioran
Reality is a creation of our excesses.
— Emile M. Cioran
I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers.
— Emile M. Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
— 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
Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.
— 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
Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.
— Emile M. Cioran
Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.
— Emile M. Cioran
Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.
— Emile M. 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
Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.
— 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
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
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
— Emile M. Cioran
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
— 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
Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.
— Emile M. Cioran
On Creating - What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.
— Emile M. Cioran
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
— Emile M. Cioran
Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.
— Emile M. Cioran
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
— Emile M. Cioran
I don't understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.
— Emile M. Cioran
To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell
— Emile M. Cioran
Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.
— 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
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
— Emile M. Cioran
One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.
— Emile M. Cioran
One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.
— 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
Normal people have nothing to forget.
— 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
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
— Emile M. Cioran
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
— 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
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
— 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
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
— Emile M. Cioran
No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.
— Emile M. Cioran
I do not want to see BP nickel and diming these businesses that are having a tough time.
— Emile M. Cioran
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
— Emile M. Cioran
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
— Emile M. Cioran
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
— Emile M. Cioran
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.
— Emile M. Cioran
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula ... to give a facade tot he void.
— Emile M. Cioran
The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.
— Emile M. Cioran
I never met one interesting mind that was not richly endowed with inadmissible deficiencies.
— Emile M. Cioran
No one can keep his griefs in their prime; they use themselves up.
— Emile M. Cioran
Lucidity's task: to attain a correct despair, an Olympian ferocity.
— Emile M. Cioran
Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.
— Emile M. Cioran
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
— Emile M. Cioran
Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other.
— Emile M. Cioran
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
— Emile M. Cioran