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

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

“We are gods with anuses.”

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

“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.”

“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 stillness and stasis of bed are the perfect opposite of travel: inertia is what I've come to consider the default mode, existentially and electronically speaking. Bed, its utter inactivity, offers a glimpse of eternity, without the drawback of being dead.”

“And after a while...I mean, how do you choose? Who gets to live? Part of life is that...well, some people have to die. My powers aren't a prescription you can get filled as needed.”

“For Death is the meaning of night;”

“Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

“Die, die we all pass away,”

“From too much love of living”