Emil Cioran

We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us. ”

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. ”

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

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

If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices. ”

The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release. ”

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. ”

One should live and die where one was born... I've been bored everywhere I went. What was the point of leaving Coasta Boacu? ”