504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.

Knowledge, having irritated and stimulated our appetite for power, will lead us inexorably to our ruin.

Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown.

To act is to anchor in the imminent future.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.