504 Quotes by Emil Cioran

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?