Emile M. Cioran

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#destroyed #gods #only

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#golden rule #image #incomplete #leave #oneself

What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you - what a revelation. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#discover #nothing #pride #revelation #you

God - a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#cured #dies #disease #god #imagine

Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my insomnias, I should surely have killed myself. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#anything #financed #had #i #impossible

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#marvel #nation #nothing #offer #once

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#delirium #ennui #itself #life #undone

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

No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#freedom #trembling #without

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

— Emile M. Cioran

#madmen #makes #potential