Emile Cioran quotes

" We are afraid of the enormity of the possible. " # Fear

" What pride to discover that nothing belongs to you—what a revelation. " # Pride

" Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. " # Affection

" Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. " # Slavery # Rebellion # Freedom

" No one can enjoy freedom without trembling. " # Freedom # Arts and Artists # Enjoyment

" We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune. " # Disability # Love # God

" We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade to the void. " # Inflation # Success # Despair

" Nothing proves that we are more than nothing. " # Philosophers and Philosophy

" To act is to anchor in the imminent future. " # Action # Past # The future

" What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name- and moving on. " # Giving