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Emile M. Cioran Quotes

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
Emile M. Cioran
Leave, Rule, Image
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emile M. Cioran
Again, Against, Everyday
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.
Emile M. Cioran
Society, Stupid, Live
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.
Emile M. Cioran
Live, Die, Attention
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran
Gods, Destroyed
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran
Enemy, Distant, Gate
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emile M. Cioran
Time, Apart, Echo
God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emile M. Cioran
God, Imagine, Disease
I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran
Best, Possible, Status
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Emile M. Cioran
Endure
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emile M. Cioran
Life, Delirium, Undone
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emile M. Cioran
Freedom, Enjoy, Trembling
Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.
Emile M. Cioran
Philosophy, Anxiety, Ideas
Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.
Emile M. Cioran
Progress, Injustice, Generation
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.
Emile M. Cioran
Revenge, Once, Sweet
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
Emile M. Cioran
Long, Madness, Flourishes
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Emile M. Cioran
Life, Live, Reason
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
Emile M. Cioran
Truth, Fear, Deceived
The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. Cioran
Pain, Greater, Limit
To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran
Dying, Fame, Forgotten
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Emile M. Cioran
End, Police, Begin
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
Emile M. Cioran
Afraid, Possible, Enormity
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
Emile M. Cioran
Country, Rather, Language
Word - that invisible dagger.
Emile M. Cioran
Word, Invisible, Dagger
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
Ideas, Obsessions, Aggregate

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Biography

Nationality: Romanian
Born: April 8, 1911
Died: 1995

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