Emile M. Cioran Country Quotations

One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland - and no other.

We inhabit a language rather than a country.

One doesn't live in a country, one lives in a language.

A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime...

What every man who loves his country hopes for in his inmost heart: the suppression of half his compatriots.

I feel completely detached from any country, any group. I am a metaphysically displaced person