Quotes By 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 myself.
Emile M. Cioran
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Emile M. Cioran
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
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
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Emile M. Cioran
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
Emile M. Cioran
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
Emile M. Cioran
Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
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
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
Emile M. Cioran
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
Emile M. Cioran