504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

If a man has not, by the time he is thirty, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism – I don’t know whether he is to be admired or scorned, regarded as a saint or a corpse.

Every form of talent involves a certain shameless-ness.

An existence transfigured by failure.

What is pity but the vice of kindness.

We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.