Author: Emil Cioran

Quotes

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.

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.

- Emil Cioran

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

- Emil Cioran

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

- Emil Cioran

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.

- Emil Cioran

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

- Emil Cioran

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

- Emil Cioran

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

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

- Emil Cioran

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