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Famous Emile M. Cioran Quotes
“For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.”
“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”
“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”
“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”
“In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.”
“To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.”
“Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.”
“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.”
“Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.”
“He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.”
“He who hates himself is not humble.”
“I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.”
“What are you waiting for in order to give up?”
“An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.”
“The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”
“One cannot live without motives. I have no motives left, and I am living.”
“I do nothing, granted. But I see the hours pass - which is better than trying to fill them.”
“The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”
“No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”
“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”
“True moral elegance consists in the art of disguising one's victories as defeats.”
“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”
“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.”