Top 300 Emil Cioran Quotes (2025 Update)
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301. “Tolerance cannot seduce the young.”

— Emil Cioran

302. “We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.”

— Emil Cioran

303. “We must learn how to explode! Any disease is healthier than the one provoked by a hoarded rage.”

— Emil Cioran

304. “In a republic, that paradise of debility, the politician is a petty tyrant who obeys the laws.”

— Emil Cioran

305. “Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven’t been cut off.”

— Emil Cioran

306. “Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.”

— Emil Cioran

307. “Doubt works deep within you like a disease or, even more effectively, like a faith.”

— Emil Cioran

308. “Mind, even more deadly to empires than to individuals, erodes them, compromises their solidity.”

— Emil Cioran

309. “Basis of society: anonymous sweat.”

— Emil Cioran

310. “It is an understatement to say that in this society injustices abound: In truth it is itself the quintessence of injustice.”

— Emil Cioran

311. “A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.”

— Emil Cioran

312. “To venture upon an undertaking of any kind, even the most insignificant, is to sacrifice to envy.”

— Emil Cioran

313. “The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his rule; he offers himself.”

— Emil Cioran

314. “No position is so false as having understood and still remaining alive.”

— Emil Cioran

315. “When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.”

— Emil Cioran

316. “A people represents not so much an aggregate of ideas and theories as of obsessions.”

— Emil Cioran

317. “If, at the limit, you can rule without crime, you cannot do so without injustices.”

— Emil Cioran

318. “Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.”

— Emil Cioran

319. “Truths begin by a conflict with the police – and end by calling them in.”

— Emil Cioran

320. “We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.”

— Emil Cioran

321. “The capital phenomenon, the most catastrophic disaster, is uninterrupted sleeplessness, that nothingness without release.”

— Emil Cioran

322. “We change ideas like neckties.”

— Emil Cioran

323. “The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.”

— Emil Cioran

324. “One hardly saves a world without ruling it.”

— Emil Cioran

325. “To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world.”

— Emil Cioran

326. “The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it.”

— Emil Cioran

327. “In order to have the stuff of a tyrant, a certain mental derangement is necessary.”

— Emil Cioran

328. “The hour of crime does not sound at the same time for all peoples. Hence, the permanence of history.”

— Emil Cioran

329. “Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.”

— Emil Cioran