Emile M. Cioran Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs; once acquired it can imprison us.”

“Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off.”

“Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”

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

“We derive our vitality from our store of madness.”

“When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”

“Every thought derives from a thwarted sensation.”

“Nothing is so wearing as the possession or abuse of liberty.”

“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.”

“The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”