Author of quotes: Emil Michel Cioran

"You don't need to end his life on the cross, for you were born crucified" (11 December 1963).
What I wouldn't give to remember what made me so bold despair!

"Old age is the most unexpected of all that happens to a man," writes Trotsky some years before death. If in his youth he had the accurate, deep and intuitive knowledge of the truth... whatever it turned out to be a lousy revolutionary!

Woe to the writer who does not cultivate in himself megalomania, but quietly watching her fade away. Soon he will notice that it is impossible to become a normal person with impunity.

The invention implies not so much the speed of the mind, how much perseverance, the ability to go deep, to stubbornly dig... spark arises from persistence.

To be like the runner who at the most crucial moment stopped in the middle of the race to try to comprehend its meaning. Meditation is the recognition of the fact that you are exhausted.

The more people suffer, the less he defends their rights. The protest is a sign that people have never experienced the torments of hell.

Melancholy feeds on itself, that's why she is not able to be updated.

The letter, which referred only to mental anguish and metaphysical issues, easily bored. To create the impression of credibility, all necessary share of pettiness. If angels went around writing, that - with the exception of the fallen - they would be impossible to read. Purity is digested with difficulty, since it is incompatible with inspiration.

He had the effrontery to die.

Nothing hinders the release, as the need for failure.

Excessive awareness prevent every case.

It is impossible to engage in dialogue with the physical pain.

Now imagine the absolute expert, titanium - for example, God: all that we do must seem to him a gross trash - even our incomparable achievements, even those that were supposed to amaze and humiliate.

Can you imagine a citizen who had not been a murderer?