Emile M. Cioran's Quotes

Emile M. Cioran's Quotes 19

Society is not a disease it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one...

Woes and wonders of Power that tonic hell synthesis of poison and panacea.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

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Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

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We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of...

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

To act is to anchor in an imminent future so imminent it becomes almost...

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What does the future that half of time matter to the man who is infatuated...

Negation is the mind's first freedom yet a negative habit is fruitful only...

For you who no longer posses it freedom is everything for us who do it is...

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

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

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

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

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed...