Emile M. Cioran Life Quotations

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

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

the deepest subjective experiences are also the most universal, because through them one reaches the universal source of life.

To exist is equivalent to an act of faith, a protest against the truth, an interminable prayer. As soon as they consent to live, the unbeliever and the man of faith are fundamentally the same, since both have made the only decision that defines a being.

Life is merely a fracas on an unmapped terrain, and the universe a geometry stricken with epilepsy.

You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.