Emil Cioran Quotes

“God: a disease we imagine we are cured of because no one dies of it nowadays.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:death

“What I know at sixty, I knew as well at twenty. Forty years of a long, a superfluous, labor of verification.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:knowledge experience

“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:poverty money

“Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:suffering consciousness

“A zoologist who observed gorillas in their native habitat was amazed by the uniformity of their life and their vast idleness. Hours and hours without doing anything… Was boredom unknown to them?”

― Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born

topic:boredom

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