374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

By what aberration has suicide, the only truly normal action, become the attribute of the flawed?

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

Under each formula lies a corpse.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

It is enough for me to hear someone talk sincerely about ideals, about the future, about philosophy, to hear him say “we" with a certain inflection of assurance, to hear him invoke "others" and regard himself as their interpreter - for me to consider him my enemy.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.