504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.

If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth.

A book is a suicide postponed.

To think is to take a cunning revenge in which we camouflage our baseness and conceal our lower instincts.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

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