Emil Cioran

Only one thing matters: learning to be the loser.

Obviously God was a solution, and obviously none so satisfactory that will ever be found again.

To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.

We must suffer to the end, to the moment when we stop believing in suffering.

My mission is to suffer for all those who suffer without knowing it. I must pay for them, expiate their unconsciousness, their luck to be ignorant of how unhappy they are.

Erosion of our being by our infirmities: the resulting void is filled by the presence of consciousness, what am I saying? — that void is consciousness itself.

God is what survives the evidence that nothing deserves to be thought.

The unfortunate thing about public misfortunes is that everyone regards himself as qualified to talk about them.

Existence would be a quite impracticable enterprise if we stopped granting importance to what has none.

To think that so many have succeeded in dying!

If instead of expanding you, putting you in a state of energetic euphoria, your ordeals depress and embitter you, you can be sure you have no spiritual vocation.

There is no false sensation.