Quotes by : Emil M. Cioran

A book is a suicide postponed.

It is no sign of benediction to have been obsessed with the lives of saints, for it is an obsession intertwined....

Tristetea, ca si suferinta, ne revela existenta, deoarece în ele avem în constiinta separatia noastra....

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

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

There are people who are destined to taste only the poison in things, for whom any surprise is a painful....

We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.

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

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

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