Emil Cioran

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu?

I saw that philosophy had no power to make my life more bearable. Thus I lost my belief in philosophy.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.