Emil Cioran

A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

What would be left of our tragedies if an insect were to present us his?

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.

Skepticism is the sadism of embittered souls.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

We derive our vitality from our store of madness.

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

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

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui.

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

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.