Emil Cioran Quote

No matter how disillusioned we may be, it is impossible to live without some hope. We always hold on to one, despite ourselves, and that unconscious hope compensates for all the other explicit hopes we have rejected or exhausted.

Society is not a disease, but a disaster. It's a stupid miracle that we manage to live in it.

Emil Cioran

A moment of lucidity, just one; and the webs of the vulgar reality will have been broken so that we can see what we are: illusions of our own thinking.

Emil Cioran

My mission is to kill time and its mission is to kill me in turn. It is good among assassins.

Emil Cioran

There is no work that does not turn against its author: the poem will crush the poet, the system the philosopher, the event the man of action.

Emil Cioran

Nature, seeking a formula to satisfy everyone, finally chose death, which, as expected, has satisfied no one.

Emil Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live, the only one, actually.

Emil Cioran

It is not the violent evils that mark us, but the silent, the insistent, the tolerable ones, those that are part of our routine and meticulously undermine us like time.

Emil Cioran

Accepting ourselves as we are: the only way to avoid bitterness. When we 'reject ourselves,' instead of paying for it ourselves, we pay with others, and we only segregate bile.

Emil Cioran

All beings are unhappy; but how many know it?

Emil Cioran

After certain experiences, we should change our name, since we are no longer the same.

Emil Cioran