The only free mind is one that, pure of all intimacy with beings or objects, plies its own vacuity.
Emile M. CioranThe capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.
Emile M. CioranThe desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.
Emile M. CioranTo live in any true sense of the word is to reject others; to accept them, one must be able to renounce, to do oneself violence, to act against one's own nature, to weaken oneself; we conceive freedom only for ourselves - we extend it to our neighbours only at the cost of exhausting efforts; whence the precariousness of liberalism, a defiance of our instincts, a brief and miraculous success, a state of exception, at the antipodes of our deepest imperatives.
Emile M. Cioran