Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

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Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.

Emile M. Cioran

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Emile M. Cioran

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

Emile M. Cioran

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Emile M. Cioran

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

Emile M. Cioran

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

Emile M. Cioran

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Emile M. Cioran

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Emile M. Cioran

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

Emile M. Cioran

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Emile M. Cioran

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

Emile M. Cioran

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Emile M. Cioran

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring.

Emile M. Cioran

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

Emile M. Cioran

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

Emile M. Cioran

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Emile M. Cioran

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Emile M. Cioran

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

Emile M. Cioran