Love, a tacit agreement between two unhappy parties to overestimate each other.
Emil Cioran on Valentine's Day
1911–1995 France
13 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)
A heart without music is like beauty without melancholy.
Tears and Saints (1937)
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.