504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

We change ideas like neckties.

If just once you were depressed for no reason, you have been so all your life without knowing.

Glory – once achieved, what is it worth?

A book has to dig through the wounds, more, it has cause a new one, a book it has to be dangerous.

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.