Emile M. Cioran quotes

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Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.
Emile M. Cioran
Man
Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.
Emile M. Cioran
Happiness
Music
My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.
Emile M. Cioran
Time
Mission
Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.
Emile M. Cioran
Habit
Negative
First
Freedom
Mind
Needs
One hardly saves a world without ruling it.
Emile M. Cioran
World
One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.
Emile M. Cioran
Country
Language
Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.
Emile M. Cioran
Abuse
Liberty
Nothing
Possession
Nothing proves that we are more than nothing.
Emile M. Cioran
Nothing
A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.
Emile M. Cioran
People
Ideas
Obsessions
Theories
No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.
Emile M. Cioran
Freedom
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emile M. Cioran
Time
Echo
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.
Emile M. Cioran
Life
Fact
Meaning
Reason
Our first intuitions are the true ones.
Emile M. Cioran
First
A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.
Emile M. Cioran
Democracy
Paradise
Nation
Nothing
A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.
Emile M. Cioran
Conversation
Invention
Silence
Speech