374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor.

After having struggled madly to solve all problems, after having suffered on the heights of despair, in the supreme hour of revelation, you will find that the only answer, the only reality, is silence.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

The universal view melts things into a blur.

Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude.

Only those moments count, when the desire to remain by yourself is so powerful that you'd prefer to blow your brains out than exchange a word with someone.

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice.

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.