Emile M. Cioran Paradise Quotations

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb.

Man started out on the wrong foot. The misadventure in paradise was the first consequence. The rest had to follow.

Tyranny destroys or strengthens the individual; freedom enervates him, until he becomes no more than a puppet. Man has more chances of saving himself by hell than by paradise.

Not one moment when I have not been conscious of being outside Paradise.