504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

The terrifying experience and obsession of death, when preserved in consciousness, becomes ruinous. If you talk about death, you save part of yourself. But at the same time, something of your real self dies, because objectified meanings lose the actuality they have in consciousness.

The one who had not ever conceived his own annulment, who had not foreseen the resource of the cord, the bullet, the poison or the sea, is a debased prisoner or a crawling worm on the cosmic carrion. This world can take off us everything, it can forbid us everything, but nobody can't prevent us our self-abolition.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Memories vanish when we want to remember, but fix themselves permanently in the mind when we want to forget.

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

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

The sense that everything is going wrong has existed in every era, and rightly so since men have found no greater pleasure than in inventing new ways to make each other miserable.