Emil Cioran quotes

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. (Emil Cioran)
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emil Cioran
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
Emil Cioran
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emil Cioran
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
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Word - that invisible dagger.
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emil Cioran
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. (Emil Cioran)
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emil Cioran
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emil Cioran
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.
Emil Cioran
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emil Cioran
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
Emil Cioran
Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
Emil Cioran
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
Emil Cioran
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. (Emil Cioran)
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
Emil Cioran
Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.
Emil Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emil Cioran
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emil Cioran