Emile M. Cioran Quotes
So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. Sperm is a bandit in its pure state. The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary. The Universal view melts things into a blur. There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be. To act is to anchor in the imminent future. To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself. To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.
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