Top 102 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible; to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.

It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other.

One hardly saves a world without ruling it.

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself.

The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.