Emile M. Cioran

To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh.

In every man sleeps a prophet, and when he wakes there is a little more evil in the world.

The martyr cannot be dishonored. Every lash inflicted is a tongue of fame; every prison a more illustrious abode.

It is hardly surprising that women concentrate on the way they look instead of what is in their minds since not much has been put in their minds to begin with.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.