374 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Knowledge subverts love: in proportion as we penetrate our secrets, we come to loathe our kind, precisely because they resemble us.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.

Once you see that everything is unreal, you can't see why you should bother to prove it.

A garbled quotation is equivalent to a betrayal, an insult, a prejudice.

Sperm is a bandit in its pure state.

For a long time—always, in fact—I have known that life here on earth is not what I needed and that I wasn’t able to deal with it; for this reason and for this reason alone, I have acquired a touch of spiritual pride, so that my existence seems to me the degradation and the erosion of a psalm.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in us by the patent nonexistence of both.