Emil Cioran

“Everything is pathology, except for indifference.”

“In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

“There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.”

“In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.”

“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”

“One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

“To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.”

“Man must vanquish himself, must do himself violence, in order to perform the slightest action untainted by evil.”

“The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.”

“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.”

“Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers.”

“Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”

“No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.”

“If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot.”