Quotes by Cioran, E. M.

The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts >>

To exist is a habit I do not despair of acquiring. >>

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed. >>

Quotations about Fear

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of p >>

Great fear is concealed under daring. >>

First you jump off the cliff and you build wings on the way down. >>

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent --unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it --we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

Cioran, E. M.