Emile M. Cioran

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal ther ...

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not fi ...

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel ...

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

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

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Show me one thing here on earth which has begun well and not ended badly. The proudest palpitations ...

Man is a robot with defects.

Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.

Every thought should recall the ruin of a smile.

Society: an inferno of saviors!