Ernest Becker Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Man is literally split in two: he has an awareness of his own splendid uniqueness in that he sticks out of nature with a towering majesty, and yet he goes back into the ground a few feet in order blindly and dumbly to rot and disappear forever. The Denial of Death

2. The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there. The Denial of Death

3. We are gods with anuses. The Denial of Death

4. Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. The Denial of Death

5. Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order tolive at all. Escape from Evil

6. Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoningof the earth by the nineteenth-century hero system of unrestrainedmaterial production. This is perhaps the greatest and most pervasiveevil to have emerged in all of history, and it may eveneventually defeat all of mankind. Still there are no "twisted" peoplewhom we can hold responsible for this. Escape from Evil