504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

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

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.