504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

A civilization begins to decline the moment Life becomes its sole obsession.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

To read is to let someone else work for you – the most delicate form of exploitation.

The Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?