374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Society: an inferno of saviors!

If you're unlucky enough not to have alcoholic parents, it takes you a whole lifetime of intoxication to overcome the dead weight of their virtues.

The deepest and most organic death is death in solitude, when even light becomes a principle of death. In such moments you will be severed from life, from love, smiles, friends and even from death. And you will ask yourself if there is anything besides the nothingness of the world and your own nothingness.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing; but instead of nonchalantly promenading our own corruption, we exude our sweat and grow winded upon the fetid air.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

Tolerance cannot seduce the young.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.