Emile M. Cioran Self Quotations

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

Were we to undertake an exhaustive self-scrutiny, disgust would paralyze us, we would be doomed to a thankless existence.

Self-conscious rejection of the absolute is the best way to resist God; thus illusion, the substance of life, is saved.

A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

Where are my sensations? They have melted into... me, and what is this me, this self, but the sum of these evaporated sensations?

How easy it is to be "deep": all you have to do is let yourself sink into your own flaws.