Emile M. Cioran

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#brings #conversation #dearly #essentials #how

The fanatic is incorruptible: if he kills for an idea, he can just as well get himself killed for one; in either case, tyrant or martyr, he is a monster. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#either #fanatic #get #himself #idea

The limit of every pain is an even greater pain. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#every #greater #limit #pain

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#enormity #possible

We inhabit a language rather than a country. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#inhabit #language #rather #than

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#insect #left #our #present #tragedies

Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#books #confide #dare #going #never

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#distant #enemy #gate #preferable

A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#ideas #much #obsessions #people #represents

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#madmen #makes #potential