Emil Cioran

However much I have frequented the mystics, deep down I have always sided with the Devil; unable to equal him in power, I have tried to be worthy of him, at least, in insolence, acrimony, arbitrariness and caprice. ”

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. ”

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself. ”

The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. ”

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. ”

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

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten. ”

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one. ”

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls. ”

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion. ”