504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights!

Jealousy – that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Read day and night, devour books – these sleeping pills – not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.

It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation’s paradise and its tomb.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.