504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can’t see why you should bother to prove it.

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one’s mind, or to define oneself – there is no wish I make more often.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

To live entirely without a goal! I have glimpsed this state, and have often attained it, without managing to remain there: I am too weak for such happiness.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.