Emil Cioran quotes

Emil Cioran was a Romanian-born philosopher and essayist, renowned for his works exploring existential despair and nihilism. His writings are marked by poetic language and profound skepticism towards meaning and happiness. He became a major figure in European intellectual circles through his incisive and pessimistic reflections. Here are 580 of his quotes:

Criticism is a misconception: we must read not to understand others but to understand ourselves. (Emil Cioran)
Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. View quote
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By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing. View quote
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Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown. View quote
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Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. View quote
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Word - that invisible dagger. View quote
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One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other. View quote
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Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. View quote
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Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. View quote
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Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. View quote
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Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers. (Emil Cioran)
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. View quote
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Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. View quote
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We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. View quote
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Anyone who speaks in the name of others is always an impostor. View quote
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A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. View quote
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The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. View quote
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What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. View quote
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Everything is pathology, except for indifference. View quote
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We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. View quote
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In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. (Emil Cioran)
We die in proportion to the words we fling around us. View quote
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Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. View quote
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It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. View quote
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Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea. View quote
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Emil Cioran

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Occupation: French Philosopher
Born: April 8, 1911
Died: June 20, 1995
Quotes count: 580
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