Truths begin by a conflict with the police - and end by calling them in. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. Emile M. Cioran languagefistsdream Philosophy: Impersonal anxiety; refuge among anemic ideas. Emile M. Cioran anxietyphilosophyideas So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes. Emile M. Cioran madnessmenlong If you lack the power to demoralize yourself along with the age, to go as low and as far, do not complain of being misunderstood by it. Emile M. Cioran misunderstoodagecomplaining Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. Emile M. Cioran parentinsomnianight Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow. Emile M. Cioran paradisefeetmen Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved. Emile M. Cioran rejectionsubstanceself Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce an optimistic, aerial vision to the point where it rejoins its own source: the very cynicism it sought to combat. In short, a monstrous fantasy. Emile M. Cioran optimisticvisionrose Afflicted with existence, each man endures like an animal the consequences which proceed from it. Thus, in a world where everything is detestable, hatred becomes huger than the world and, having transcended its object, cancels itself out. Emile M. Cioran hateanimalmen Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. Emile M. Cioran prove Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors. Emile M. Cioran injusticeprogressgenerations My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers. Emile M. Cioran missionsmurdererkill-me Our place is somewhere between being and nonbeing - between two fictions. Emile M. Cioran twofiction In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. Emile M. Cioran evilsleepmen You cannot protect your solitude if you cannot make yourself odious. Emile M. Cioran protectsolitudeifs What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. Emile M. Cioran revelationspride Skepticism is the elegance of anxiety. Emile M. Cioran skepticismanxietyelegance All great ideas should be followed by an exclamation mark - a warning signal similar to the skull and crossbones drawn on high-voltage transformers. Emile M. Cioran exclamation-marksskullsideas Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it. Emile M. Cioran diseasemiraclestupid A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. Emile M. Cioran offersparadisedemocracy
