Emile M. Cioran Quotes

Our first intuitions are the true ones.

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Imaginary pains are by far the most real we suffer, since we feel a constant need for them and invent them because there is no way of doing without them.

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there.

My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.

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

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.