374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

By virtue of depression, we recall those misdeeds we buried in the depths of our memory. Depression exhumes our shames.

Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

To live... in any sense of the word... is to reject others; to accept them, one must renounce, do oneself violence.