25 Quotes by E.M. Cioran

There are nights that the most ingenious torturers could not have invented. We emerge from them in pieces, stupid, dazed, with neither memories nor anticipations, and without even knowing who we are. And it is then that the day seems useless, light pernicious, even more oppressive than the darkness.

I shall take the liberty of praying for you." – "Glad to hear it. But who will listen to you?

The universe transformed into a Sunday afternoon . . . it is the very definition of ennui, and the end of the universe.

Cuando se vuelve a ver a alguien después de muchos años, habría que sentarse, uno frente al otro, y no decir nada durante horas para que, al amparo del silencio, la consternación pudiese saborearse a sí misma.

La noia è pensiero in germe

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

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama.