504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.

In the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.

If you’re unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

Is it possible that existence is our exile and nothingness our home?

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.