374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Each time I fail to think about death, I have the impression of cheating, of deceiving someone in me.

The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

Utopia is a mixture of childish rationalism and secularized angelism.

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

True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes.

Psychoanalysis is a technique we practice at our cost; psychoanalysis degrades our risks, our dangers, our depths; it strips us of our impurities, of all that made us curious about ourselves.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other

We have lost, being born, as much as we shall lose dying: Everything!

We change ideas like neckties.