Quotes by Cioran, E. M.

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

Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its p >>

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with on >>

Quotations about Solitude

A writer who writes, I am alone... can be considered rather comical. I >>

In solitude we are in the presence of mere matter (even the sky, the s >>

The whole business of your life overwhelms you when you live alone. On >>

Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.

Cioran, E. M.