What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, superfluous, labor of verification.

- Emile M. Cioran

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.

- Emile M. Cioran

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

- Emile M. Cioran

Democracy: a festival of mediocrity.

- Emile M. Cioran

What do you do from morning to night?" "I endure myself.

- Emile M. Cioran

The true hero fights and dies in the name of his destiny, and not in the name of a belief.

- Emile M. Cioran

Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.

- Emile M. Cioran

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.

- Emile M. Cioran

Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to live, why would they have any to d…

- Emile M. Cioran