Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

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

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

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.