374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Maniacs of Procreation, bipeds with devalued faces, we have lost all appeal for each other.

To have committed every crime but that of being a father.

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

To write books is to have a certain relation with original sin. For what is a book if not a loss of innocence, an act of aggression, a repetition of our Fall?

To Foreswear vengeance is to chain oneself to forgiveness, to flounder in pardon, to be tainted by the hatred smothered within.

The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore.

Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.