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Emile M. Cioran Quotes


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

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.

I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual.

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

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.

In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

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

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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