Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. – Emile M. Cioran
Each concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious. – Emile M. Cioran
Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. – Emile M. Cioran
What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? – Emile M. Cioran
The obsession with suicide is characteristic of the man who can neither live nor die, and whose attention never swerves from this double impossibility. – Emile M. Cioran
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. – Emile M. Cioran
Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all. – Emile M. Cioran
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. – Emile M. Cioran
The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. – Emile M. Cioran
