Emile M. Cioran

I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously? ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#i #seriously #simply #take #why

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every man #evil #little #man #more

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#exist #futility #irrational #life #most

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

#characteristic #die #double #impossibility #live

If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#others #ourselves #see #spot #us

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#discover #nothing #pride #revelation #you

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#music #refuge #souls

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#sadism #skepticism #souls

Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#always #arms #oppressor #rarely #rebels

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once