If we manage to last in spite of everything, it is because our infirmities are so many and so contradictory that they cancel each other out.
Emile M. CioranAll people see fires, storms, explosions, or landscapes; but how many feel the flames, the lightnings, the whirlwinds, or the harmony? How many have an inner beauty that tinges their melancholy?
Emile M. CioranThe importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot.
Emile M. CioranI feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person
Emile M. Cioran