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Emile M Cioran
No one recovers...
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Every thought derives...
Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.
Source: The Trouble with Being...
A sensation must...
A sensation must have fallen very low to deign to turn into an idea.
Source:...
Imaginary pains are...
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because...
To want fame...
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Source: The New Gods, ...
All that shimmers...
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and...
Consciousness is much...
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.
Source:...
The history of...
The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.
Source: In...
No one can...
No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.
Source: In
The fanatic is...
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case,...
Criticism is a...
Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand...
My mission is...
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among...
Since all life...
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.
There is no...
There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Source: The New...
If we could...
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Source:...
One does not...
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland -- and no...
Alone, even doing...
Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself...
To be human...
To be human is no solution, any more than ceasing to be so.
Source: In Webster's...
Torment, for some...
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Source: The...
Speech and silence....
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his...