So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.
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

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.
Emile M. Cioran

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.
Emile M. Cioran

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. Cioran

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

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster.
Emile M. Cioran

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

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.
Emile M. Cioran

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.
Emile M. Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.
Emile M. Cioran

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

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

The Universal view melts things into a blur.
Emile M. Cioran

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.
Emile M. Cioran

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.
Emile M. Cioran

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

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.
Emile M. Cioran

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.
Emile M. Cioran

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
Emile M. Cioran