“We are doomed to perdition each time life does not reveal itself as a miracle, each time the moment no longer moans in a supernatural shudder.”
     E. M. Cioran

“Is there a pure feeling which fails to betray the mixture of grace and imbecility, a blissful admiration without an eclipse of the intelligence?”
     E.M. Cioran

“History is nothing but a procession of false Absolutes, a series of temples raised to pretexts, a degradation of the mind before the Improbable.”
     E.M. Cioran

“...life is tolerable only by the degree of mystification we endow it with.”
     E.M. Cioran

“To get back to the source of these expressions of the vague, we must make an affective regression toward their essence, must drown in the ineffable and emerge from it with our concepts in tatters. Once our theoretical assurance and our pride in the intelligible is lost, we can try to understand everything for itself. Then we manage to rejoice in the inexpressible, to spend our days in the margin of the comprehensible, and to wallow in the suburbs of the sublime. In order to escape sterility, we must wear Reason's mourning...”
     E.M. Cioran

“To exist is a state as little conceivable as its contrary. No, still more inconceivable.”
     E.M. Cioran

E. M. Cioran quotes from THE WAY OF WONDER, by Jack Haas