Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!
Emile M. CioranThe Art of Love: knowing how to combine the temperament of a vampire with the discretion of an anemone.
Emile M. CioranFear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.
Emile M. CioranHistory is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.
Emile M. Cioran