Quotes by : Emil M. Cioran

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found....

I try--without success--to stop finding reasons for vanity in anything. When I happen to manage it nonetheless,....

For the normal man, life is an undisputed reality; only the sick man is delighted by life and praises....

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

If you try to convert someone, it will never be toeffect his salvation but to make him suffer like yourself,to....

To live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce,....

Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin....

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely....

Compassion is a sign of superficiality: broken destinies and unrelenting misery either make you scream....

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence....