238 Quotes by Emil M. Cioran

El aburrimiento es el eco en nosotros del tiempo que se desgarra…, la revelación del vacío, el cese de ese delirio que sostiene —o inventa— la vida…

Ces idées qui survolent l'espace, et qui, tout à coup, se heurtent aux parois du crâne...

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

To that friend who tells me he is bored because he cannot work, I answer that boredom is a higher state, and that we debase it by relating it to the notion of work.

Un livre est un suicide différé.

Ne se suicident que les optimistes qui ne peuvent plus l’être. Les autres, n’ayant aucune raison de vivre, pourquoi en auraient-ils de mourir ?

And this nothing, this everything, cannot give life a meaning, but it nonetheless makes life persevere in what it is: a state of non-suicide.

Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.