Every profound dissatisfaction is of a religious nature: our failures derive from our incapacity to conceive of paradise and to aspire to it, as our discomforts from the fragility of our relations with the absolute.
Emile M. CioranTragic paradox of freedom: the mediocre men who alone make its exercise possible cannot guarantee its duration.
Emile M. CioranInsomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.
Emile M. CioranWhat does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?
Emile M. Cioran