Quote #45
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves.
More from Emile Cioran
- It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other.
- Basis of society: anonymous sweat.
- We interest others by the misfortune we spread around us.
- Vague a l'ame - melancholy yearning for the end of the world.
- To Live signifies to believe and hope-to lie and to lie to oneself.
- The curtain of the universe is moth-eaten, and through its holes we see nothing now but mask and ghost.
- Intelligence flourishes only in the ages when belief withers.
- Society is not a disease, it is a disaster. What a stupid miracle that one can live in it.