Emile M. Cioran Needs Quotations

Torment, for some men, is a need, an appetite, and an accomplishment.

When you have understood that nothing is, that things do not even deserve the status of appearances, you no longer need to be saved, you are saved, and miserable forever.

Much more than our other needs and endeavors, it is sexuality that puts us on an even footing with our kind: the more we practice it, the more we become like everyone else: it is in the performance of a reputedly bestial function that we prove our status as citizens: nothing is more public than the sexual act.

The need for novelty is the characteristic of an alienated gorilla.