Emil Cioran

“In the main, people are not worth bothering about.”

“It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.”

“A book is a suicide postponed.”

“What do you do from morning to night? I endure myself.”

“The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one.”

“I'm simply an accident. Why take it all so seriously?”

“Write books only if you are going to say in them the things you would never dare confide to anyone.”

“Not to be born is undoubtedly the best plan of all. Unfortunately, it is within no one's reach.”

“One does not inhabit a country; one inhabits a language. That is our country, our fatherland – and no other.”

“By all evidence we are in the world to do nothing.”

“Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture.”

“Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.”

“To have committed every crime but that of being a father.”

“The more I live, the more I think that humor is the saving sense.”

“The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death.”

“Only the man who has known the immense emptiness of everything can have the terrifying liberty to do anything.”

“A single event can awaken within us a stranger totally unknown to us. To live is to be slowly born.”

“Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors.”