Emile M. Cioran Melancholy Quotations

Melancholy: an appetite no misery satisfies.

Melancholy redeems this universe, and yet it is melancholy that separates us from it.

Espousing the melancholy of ancient symbols, I would have freed myself.

The refutation of suicide: is it not inelegant to abandon a world which has so willingly put itself at the service of our melancholy?

Vague a l'ame — melancholy yearning for the end of the world.