Ernest Becker, The Denial Of Death Quotes

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

Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

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

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

We are gods with anuses.

Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.