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The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.
Emile M. Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
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
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.
Emile M. Cioran
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emile M. Cioran
To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.
Emile M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
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
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emile M. Cioran
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emile M. Cioran
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
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
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran