Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.

The Universal view melts things into a blur.

Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an imposter.

What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.

We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.

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

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.

There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

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.