374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?

Humanity adores only those who cause it to perish.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

Try to be free: you will die of hunger.

I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

All philosophers should end their days at Pythia’s feet. There is only one philosophy, that of unique moments.