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

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

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

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“I know that my birth is fortuitous, a laughable accident, and yet, as soon as I forget myself, I behave as if it were a capital event, indispensable to the progress and equilibrium of the world.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Since it is difficult to approve the reasons people invoke, each time we leave one of our 'fellow men', the question which comes to mind is invariably the same: how does he keep from killing himself?”

Emil M. Cioran book A Short History of Decay

A Short History of Decay (1949)

“Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing — between two fictions.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“Without its assiduity to the ridiculous, would the human race have lasted more than a single generation?”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“The need to devour oneself absolves one of the need to believe.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.”

Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born

The Trouble With Being Born (1973)

“Let us speak plainly: everything which keeps us from self-dissolution, every lie which protects us against our unbreathable certitudes is religious.”

The Temptation to Exist (1956)

“What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“Try as I will, I don't see what might exist…”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“The more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.”

Anathemas and Admirations (1987)

“If a man has not, by the time he is 30, yielded to the fascination of every form of extremism, I don't know if he is to be admired or scorned — a saint or a corpse.”

Emil M. Cioran book History and Utopia

History and Utopia (1960)

“To try curing someone of a "vice," of what is the deepest thing he has, is to attack his very being, and this is indeed how he himself understands it, since he will never forgive you for wanting him to destroy himself in your way and not his.”

Drawn and Quartered (1983)

“In our fear, we are victims of an aggression of the Future.”

All Gall Is Divided (1952)

“Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.”

Tears and Saints (1937)