Emile Cioran

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

Once I emerge from the "I," I put myself to sleep.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

We go to such lengths—why? To become again what we were before we were.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

If you are almost always overcome by events, it is because you need merely wait in order to realize that you have been guilty of naïveté.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

Everything is in decline, and always has been. Once this diagnosis is well established, you can utter any enormity; you are even obliged to.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

To see in every baby a future Richard III...

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

If I were to obey my first impulse, I should spend my days writing letters of insult and adieu.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

What dates most is rebellion—that is, the most /vital/ of our reactions.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

No greater obstacle to deliverance than the need for failure.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

Opinions, yes; convictions, no. That is the point of departure for intellectual pride.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

There comes a moment when one imitates nothing more than oneself.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

If only it were possible to identify that vice of fabrication whose trace the universe so visibly bears!

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

Those moments when a memory or even less is enough to slip out of the world.

[Emile Cioran @emcioran]

Ravaged by boredom, that cyclone in slow motion.