Quotes by : Emil M. Cioran

This is how I recognize an authentic poet: by frequenting him, living a long time in the intimacy of....

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim.

Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and....

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

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would....

No one is responsible for what he is nor even for what he does. This is obvious and everyone more or....

We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us....

Only the mediocre want to die of old age. Suffer, then, drink pleasure to its last dregs, cry or laugh,....

Nothing sweeter than to drag oneself along behind events; and nothing more reasonable. But without a....

The cynicism of utter solitude is a calvary relieved by insolence.