Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves.

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

By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.

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.

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Everything is pathology, except for indifference.