23 Quotes by Emile Cioran

The only successful philosophies and religions are the ones that flatter us, whether in the name of progress or of hell. Damned or not, man experiences an absolute need to be at the heart of everything.

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

Ambition is a drug that turns it's addicts into potential madmen.

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

Meeting, after several years, someone we used to know as a child, the first glance almost always suggests that some great disaster must have befallen him

Una poesía digna de ese nombre comienza por la experiencia de la fatalidad. Sólo los malos poetas son libres.

Modelos de estilo: el juramento, el telegrama y el epitafio.

Hacia una sabiduría vegetal: abjuraría de todos mis terrores por lasonrisa de un árbol...

What we crave, what we want to see in others eyes, is that servile expression, an unconcealed infatuation with our gestures.