Top 102 Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

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.

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

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

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility.