What is pity but the vice of kindness. Emile M. Cioran More Quotes by Emile M. Cioran More Quotes From Emile M. Cioran Each of us is born with a share of purity, predestined to be corrupted by our commerce with mankind, by that sin against solitude. Emile M. Cioran sinsolitudepurity Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. Emile M. Cioran imaginationlife-ismemories Reality is a creation of our excesses. Emile M. Cioran excesscreationreality Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy. Emile M. Cioran epilepsygeometrylife-is True confessions are written with tears only. But my tears would drown the world, as my inner fire would reduce it to ashes. Emile M. Cioran ashestearsfire At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning. Emile M. Cioran eventsmomentssuffering I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers. Emile M. Cioran telegramsprayer Society: an inferno of saviors! Emile M. Cioran infernosavior Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies. Emile M. Cioran melancholymiserysad Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. Emile M. Cioran damageregretpay It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: in truth, it is itself the quintessence of injustice. Emile M. Cioran quintessencethis-societyinjustice Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart. Emile M. Cioran echoesennuitime Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. Emile M. Cioran concessionsconscious A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. Emile M. Cioran destroyedgodcivilization I seem to myself, among civilized men, an intruder, a troglodyte enamored of decrepitude, plunged into subversive prayers. Emile M. Cioran civilizedprayermen My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are. Emile M. Cioran ignorantknowingsuffering Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute. Emile M. Cioran paradisereligiousprofound God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. Emile M. Cioran atheismdiseasegod All people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy? Emile M. Cioran flamesfirepeople I dream of a language whose words, like fists, would fracture jaws. Emile M. Cioran languagefistsdream
