Emile M. Cioran
  • No one can enjoy freedom without trembling.

  • For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

  • Negation is the mind's first freedom, yet a negative habit is fruitful only so long as we exert ourselves to overcome it, adapt it to our needs once acquired it can imprison us.

  • What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity?

  • To act is to anchor in an imminent future, so imminent it becomes almost tangible to act is to feel you are consubstantial with that future.