Emil Cioran

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. ”

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

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

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ”

The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. ”

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life. ”

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

Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil. ”

Anyone can escape into sleep, we are all geniuses when we dream, the butcher's the poet's equal there. ”

To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy. ”