Quotes by Emile M. Cioran

Isn’t history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.

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.

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

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

The desire to die was my one and only concern to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.

Life inspires more dread than death – it is life which is the great unknown.