Quotes by Cioran, E. M.

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost >>

Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all >>

A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us ba >>

Quotations about Martyrdom

There are in every generation those who shrink from the ultimate sacri >>

The torments of martyrdom are probably most keenly felt by the bystand >>

Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the corre >>

No human beings more dangerous than those who have suffered for a belief: the great persecutors are recruited from the martyrs not quite beheaded. Far from diminishing the appetite for power, suffering exasperates it.

Cioran, E. M.