5 Quotes by E. M. Cioran

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

In a world without melancholy, nightingales would start burping

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

No one can keep his grieves in their prime; they use themselves up.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.