504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

Basis of society: anonymous sweat.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

Shame on the man who goes to his grave escorted by the miserable hopes that have kept him alive.

Boredom dismantles the mind, renders it superficial, out at the seams, saps it from within and dislocates it.

Every word affords me pain. Yet how sweet it would be if I could hear what the flowers have to say about death!