Quotes by Cioran, E. M.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness. >>

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even dese >>

We would not be interested in human beings if we did not have the hope >>

Quotations about Existence

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence. >>

Being is the great explainer. >>

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which h >>

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Cioran, E. M.