Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
Emile M. CioranThe wise man, the sage, is hostile to the new. Disabused, he abdicates: that is his form of protest.
Emile M. CioranEach concession we make is accompanied by an inner diminution of which we are not immediately conscious.
Emile M. Cioran