Emile M. Cioran quotes

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In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.
Emile M. Cioran
Paradise
Laws
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran
Enemy
Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.
Emile M. Cioran
Death
Life
Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.
Emile M. Cioran
Life
Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran
Jealousy
Worship
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
Emile M. Cioran
Killing
Worth
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
Emile M. Cioran
History
Fear
Boredom
Result
Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
Emile M. Cioran
Intelligence
Belief
In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.
Emile M. Cioran
Order
In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.
Emile M. Cioran
Evil
Man
World
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emile M. Cioran
Imagination
Life
Memory
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Emile M. Cioran
Being
Disease
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
Parents
Youth
A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.
Emile M. Cioran
Civilization
Gods
Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.
Emile M. Cioran
Action
Evil
Man
Order
Violence