Quotes Emile M. Cioran

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed...

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate....

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself....

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a n...

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and th...

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly br...

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen....

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dr...

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposte...

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing....

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, Chaos is being your...

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

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fea...

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand...

Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminutio...

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart....

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation....

Everything is pathology, except for indifference....

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

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?...

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one di...

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads ha...

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams a...

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an inte...

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?...