374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

We cannot be normal and alive at the same time.

Sometimes I wish I were a cannibal – less for the pleasure of eating someone than for the pleasure of vomiting him.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

Between Ennui and Ecstasy unwinds our whole experience of time.

I have always struggled, with the sole intention of ceasing to struggle. Result: zero.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.