Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.
Emil Cioran on Christmas
1911–1995 France
12 quotes
History and Utopia (1960)
To have failed in everything, always, out of a love of discouragement.
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Refinement is a sign of a deficient vitality, in art, in love, and in everything.
The New Gods (1969)
Losing love is so rich a philosophical ordeal that it makes a hairdresser into a rival of Socrates.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous.
History and Utopia (1960)
Love's great (and sole) originality is to make happiness indistinct from misery.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
For a writer, to change languages is to write a love letter with a dictionary.
Anathemas and Admirations (1987)
Thought is as much a lie as love or faith.
A Short History of Decay (1949)
A Short History of Decay (1949)
We always love . . . despite; and that "despite" covers an infinity.
All Gall Is Divided (1952)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emil Cioran (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.