Emile M. Cioran Madness Quotations

So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

What music appeals to in us it is difficult to know; what we do know is that music reaches a zone so deep that madness itself cannot penetrate there.

Life without utopia is suffocating, for the multitude at least: threatened otherwise with petrifaction, the world must have a new madness.