Quotes by : Ernest Becker

[Man] literally drives himself into a blind obliviousness with social games, psychological tricks, personal....

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

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality....

We are gods with anuses.

Men use one another to assure their personal victory over death.

In this view, man is an energy-convertingorganism who must exert his manipulative powers, who must damage....

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

Modern man is drinking and drugging himself out of awarness, or he spends his time shopping, which is....

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

We called one's lifestyle a vital lie, and now we can understand better why we said it was vital: it....