What can be said, lacks reality. Only what fails to make its way into words exists and counts.
Emile M. CioranThe more one has suffered, the less one demands. To protest is a sign one has traversed no hell.
Emile M. CioranI have all the defects of other people yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.
Emile M. CioranI have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.
Emile M. CioranIn the hours without sleep, each moment is so full and so vacant that it suggests itself as a rival of Time.
Emile M. CioranI am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.
Emile M. Cioran