504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing – between two fictions.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.

What necessity impels a writer who has produced fifty books to write still one more? Why this proliferation, this fear of being forgotten, this debased coquetry?

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!