Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

Glory - once achieved, what is it worth?

Under each formula lies a corpse.

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

Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas.

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

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.

Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.

We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.

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.