Emil Cioran
View AuthorEvery being is a destroyed anthem.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorSociety is not a disease, but a disaster. It's a stupid miracle that we manage to live in it.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorA 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
View AuthorThe lie is a form of talent.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorMy mission is to kill time and its mission is to kill me in turn. It is good among assassins.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorThere 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
View AuthorNature, seeking a formula to satisfy everyone, finally chose death, which, as expected, has satisfied no one.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorThe fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live, the only one, actually.
Emil Cioran
View AuthorIt 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
View AuthorAccepting 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
View AuthorAll beings are unhappy; but how many know it?
Emil Cioran
View AuthorAfter certain experiences, we should change our name, since we are no longer the same.