374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Man is a robot with defects.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

The amount of chiaroscuro an idea harbors is the only index of its profundity.

The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.

Only superficial minds approach an idea with delicacy.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.

I have always lived with the awareness of the impossibility of living. And what has made existence endurable to me is my curiosity as to how I would get from one minute, one day, one year to the next.