374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

As art sinks into paralysis, artists multiply. This anomaly ceases to be one if we realize that art, on its way to exhaustion, has become both impossible and easy.

How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.

I have decided not to oppose anyone ever again, since I have noticed that I always end by resembling my latest enemy.

Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it.

History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.