Quote #43
We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
More from Emile Cioran
- To Live signifies to believe and hope-to lie and to lie to oneself.
- It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other.
- Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
- When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
- Everything is pathology, except for indifference.
- Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
- Truths begin by a conflict with the police-and end by calling them in.
- Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.