Emile M. Cioran Believe Quotations

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

Those who believe in their truth -- the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men -- leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom humanity has called divine far surpass the most conscientious murderers in their thirst for slaughter.

As long as one believes in philosophy, one is healthy; sickness begins when one starts to think.

To Live signifies to believe and hope - to lie and to lie to oneself.

I don’t understand how people can believe in God, even when I myself think of him everyday.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

Philosophy is a corrective against sadness. Yet there still are people who believe in the profundity of philosophy!