Humor Quote by Ernest Becker — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Today we are living the grotesque spectacle of the poisoning”

“Man is an animal who has to live in a lie in order to”

“Yet, at the same time, as the Eastern sages also knew, man is a worm and food for worms. This is the paradox: he is out of nature and hopelessly in it; he is dual, up in the stars and yet housed in a heart-pumping, breath-gasping body that once belonged to a fish and still carries the gill-marks to prove it. His body is a material fleshy casing that is alien to him in many ways—the strangest and most repugnant way being that it aches and bleeds and will decay and die.”

“the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith”

“This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consciousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression - and with all this yet to die.”

“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.”

“Out of the corner of her eye she thought she saw Jace shoot her a look of white rage - but when she glanced at him, he looked as he always did: easy, confident, slightly bored.”

“You are speaking of my future lover. Be more respectful.”

“My name is Percy Jackson.”

“Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.”

“When did you become a woman?"-Hatori”

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”