Author of quotes: Emil Michel Cioran (Cioran)

Just flipped through a biography. The thought that all the characters mentioned in it already exist only on the pages of this book seemed so unbearable to me that I lay down so as not to faint.

Only in youth there is a desire for friendship and the ability to it. It is quite clear to an elderly person that most of all he is afraid, no matter how his friends survive him.

The organist played in a deserted church. There was no one else, only a cat whirling at my feet ... I was shocked by the musician's passion: questions that always tormented me flooded over me. The organ's response seemed unsatisfactory to me, but given my condition at that time, it was still - in spite of everything - there was an answer.

He had the shamelessness to die. Indeed, there is something indecent about death. Of course, this aspect of it comes to mind last.

Passersby idiotic person and how did we come to this? Can you imagine such a spectacle in antiquity, for example in Athens?

The great powers are not defeated - they usually commit suicide.

To rise to compassion, it is necessary to bring the concern to oneself to satiety, to disgust, for such an extreme degree of disgust, is a sign of health, a necessary condition to see beyond their own troubles and sorrows.

The best way to find true friends to congratulate them on their failures.

If I have no taste for the Mysterious, it is because that all seems to me to be inexplicable - not to mention - because I live inexplicable and already they are adapting.

The task of each of us to bring to the limit the lies that he embodies, to reach the state, when you become merely an illusion, already obsolete.

You can be proud of what has been done, but much more should be proud of what is not done. The pride have yet to be invented.

When will the cycle of mistakes and errors, inside of which committed acts, to hold any position becomes almost impossible. For the whole - for approval or even denial - we need a drop of stupidity.

All those whose interests coincide with mine, I always find a flaw...

The overthrow of idols entails the elimination of prejudices.