Cioran Insomnia Quotes & Sayings

Just as ecstasy purifies you of the particular and the contingent, leaving nothing except light and darkness, so insomnia kills off the multiplicity and diversity of the world, leaving you prey to your private obsessions. — Emile M. Cioran

Insomnia is a vertiginous lucidity that can convert paradise itself into a place of torture. — Emil Cioran

What strangely enchanted tunes gush forth during those sleepless nights! — Emile M. Cioran

The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational animal when other animals are equally reasonable? But there is not another animal in the entire creation that wants to sleep yet cannot. — Emile M. Cioran