374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Tyrants are always assassinated too late. That is their great excuse.

Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.

What are you waiting for in order to give up?

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

History proves nothing because it contains everything.

An existence transfigured by failure.

To accomplish nothing and die of the strain

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.