Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Tolerance - the function of an extinguished ardor - tolerance cannot seduce the young.
Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
Under each formula lies a corpse.
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
We are born to Exist, not to know, to be, not to assert ourselves.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
We derive our vitality from our store of madness.
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us.
We inhabit a language rather than a country.
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.
We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope of someday meeting someone worse off than ourselves.
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.
What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave.
Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
