Emil Cioran Quotes

A man in power, once becoming obnoxious, his acts, good or bad, will work out his ruin.

Hope has often caused the love of gain to ruin men.

If you think of paying court to the men in power, your eternal ruin is assured.

The story of Willie Stark fascinated me because it was tackling the story of a man who outwardly has all the success one could possibly want and who is destroyed by his personal demons.

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall.

Can we wonder that all has gone ill with us when our love of office survives in our very ruin?

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin.

Help means ruin and saving means slaying.

Whom the gods wish to destroy, they give unlimited resources.

I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

destruction is ultimately self-destruction.

Success has ruin'd many a man.

Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy.

We are living even now among punishments and ruins.

Each mans spills the drink he loves.

Experience has further taught me this, that we ruin ourselves by impatience.

This world, which has the potential to be Eden, is instead the hell before Hell. In our arrogance, we have made it so.

The acorn of ambition often grows into an oak from which men hang.

When a man takes the road to destruction, the gods help him along.

The higher up, the harder the fall.

Great power which incites great envy, hurls some men to destruction; they are drowned in a long splendid stream of honors.

People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state on innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.

The love of power is the demon of mankind.