Emil Cioran quotes

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

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

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

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