374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Even when nothing happens, everything seems too much for me. What can be said, then, in the presence of an event, any event?

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

I cannot contribute anything to this world because I only have one method: agony.

One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

To possess a high degree of consciousness, to be always aware of yourself in relation to the world, to live in the permanent tension of knowledge, means to be lost for life.

If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living. The answer probably lies in the irrational character of life which maintains itself without reason.