God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.
Emile M. Cioran

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.
Emile M. Cioran

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

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.
Emile M. Cioran

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?
Emile M. Cioran

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.
Emile M. Cioran

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.
Emile M. Cioran

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.
Emile M. Cioran

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.
Emile M. Cioran

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

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.
Emile M. Cioran

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emile M. Cioran

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. Cioran

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