504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

To defy heredity is to defy billions of years, to defy the first cell.

When people come to me saying they want to kill themselves, I tell them, “What’s your rush? You can kill yourself any time you like. So calm down. Suicide is a positive act.” And they do calm down.

Normal people have nothing to forget.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

God – a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police – and end by calling them in.

I am like a broken puppet whose eyes have fallen inside.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.