374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.

The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.

Hungarian Language — savage it may be but of a beauty that has nothing human about it, with sonorities of another universe, powerful and corrosive, appropriate to prayer, to groans and to tears, risen out of hell to perpetuate its accent and its aura…words of nectar and cyanide.

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

No matter which way we go, it is no better than any other. It is all the same whether you achieve something or not, have faith or not, just as it is all the same whether you cry or remain silent.

I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.