“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, inco...” — Emil Cioran Quote

“We understand God by everything in ourselves that is fragmentary, incomplete, and inopportune.”

“A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.”

“So long as man is protected by madness - he functions - and flourishes.”

“As incompetent in life as in death, I loathe myself and in this loathing I dream of another life, another death. And for having sought to be a sage such as never was, I am only a madman among the mad . . .”

“We inhabit a language rather than a country.”

“My mission is to kill time, and time's to kill me in its turn. How comfortable one is among murderers.”

“Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.”

“Laughter is God's blessing.”

“God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius.”

“It broke her heart that the boy she loved was taken so tragically and so unexpectedly. She never got to say goodbye. She wished she could sit with him, talk to him, and hear his voice one last time. She would sacrifice anything to hug him and kiss him once more. The moment she lost Robert in that fateful accident, it was as if she had lost her reason for living, and she felt her life begin to race tragically towards its inevitable end.”

“I am trying now to be entirely honest. I did actually comfort in the thought that the Devil had, on Strawless Common, defeated God. I much preferred that thought to the thought that God hadn't cared, hadn't helped Robin. I thought all the way back to the story of Eden. God, all-loving, all-wise, had surely wanted people to be happy and healthy and good; it was the Devil who spoiled it all...and since so many people were miserable and sickly and bad the Devil must indeed by very powerful. The lifeless, voiceless thing, lately a singing boy, which they had cut down and put under a sack in the barn to await an unhallowed cross-road grave seemed to me to prove the power of the Devil.”