25 Quotes by E.M. Cioran

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

Sexuality is a great leveler; better it strips us of our mystery...Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else; it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

Keeping up is the mark of a fluctuating mind that pursues nothing personal, that is unsuited to obsession, that continual impasse.

To express an obsession is to project it outside yourself. To hunt it down, to exorcise it. obsessions are the demons of a world without faith.

The apparent symmetry of joys and pains has nothing to do with their equitable distribution: it results from the injustice which strikes certain individuals, thereby forcing them to compensate by their despondency for the other's unconcern.

It is just possible to imagine God speaking French. Christy never. His words do not function in a language so ill at ease in the naive or the sublime

As if I didn't have enough troubles, here I am harassed by those that must have been known to the cavemen.