504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

I’m simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.

Man is a robot with defects.

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

There was a time when time did not yet exist.

A great step forward was made the day men understood that in order to torment one another more efficiently they would have to gather together, to organize themselves into a society.

I would like to go mad on one condition, namely, that I would become a happy madman, lively and always in a good mood, without any troubles and obsessions, laughing senselessly from morning to night.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?