Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

More Quotes By Emile M. Cioran

• The universal view melts things into a blur.
• There is no other world. Nor even this one. What, then, is there? The inner smile provoked in...
• Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?’ —That’s what I’d like to...
• By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.
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• Our first intuitions are the true ones.
• Impossible to spend sleepless nights and accomplish anything: if, in my youth, my parents had not financed my...
• The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live – moreover, the only one.
• The only way of enduring one disaster after the next is to love the very idea of disaster:...
• The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear...
• Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so,...
• The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
• How important can it be that I suffer and think? My presence in this world will disturb a...
• Only optimists commit suicide, optimists who no longer succeed at being optimists. The others, having no reason to...
• Chaos is rejecting all you have learned, chaos is being yourself.