374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

An aphorism? Fire without flames. Understandable that no one tries to warm himself at it.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

There is not much difference between a mortal man and a dying man. The absurdity of making plans is only slightly more obvious in the second case.

There is no limit to suffering.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

The wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.

Trees are massacred, houses go up — faces, faces everywhere. Man is spreading. Man is the cancer of the earth.

I have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.