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

“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 man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever”

“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.”

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

“The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.”

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

“You didn't have to come after me.”

“Ever heard of the rule of three? he shouts as we run.”

“In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.”

“Who wants to go down the creepy tunnel inside the tomb first?”

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

“Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.”