Emile M. Cioran
Emile M. Cioran
NationalityRomanian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth8 April 1911
CountryRomania
world evidence
By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
ideas way next
The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster: if we succeed, there are no further surprises, we are superior to whatever occurs, we are invincible victims.
dust flow would-be
I would like to explode, flow, crumble into dust, and my disintegration would be my masterpiece.
animal men kingdoms
Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.
sex practice needs
Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.
years names numbers
As the years pass, the number of those we can communicate with diminishes. When there is no longer anyone to talk to, at last we will be as we were before stooping to a name.
ignorance interesting fruit
All that shimmers on the surface of the world, all that we call interesting, is the fruit of ignorance and inebriation.
boredom one-thing
There is only one thing worse than boredom, and that is the fear of boredom.
police calling conflict
Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in.
light return welcome
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
may incapacity
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves.