504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

There is no limit to suffering.

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

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.