Wherever we go, we come up against the human, a repulsive ubiquity before which we fall into stupor and revolt, a perplexity on fire.
Emile M. CioranJust as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions.
Emile M. CioranSelf-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.
Emile M. Cioran