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  • The woe of mortality makes humans God-like. It is because we know that we must die that we are so busy making life. It is because we are aware of mortality that we preserve the past and create the future. Mortality is ours without asking--but immortality is something we must build ourselves. Immortality is not a mere absence of death; it is defiance and denial of death. It is 'meaningful' only because there is death, that implacable reality which is to be defied.

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

    Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.204, Simon and Schuster
  • 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.

    Men   Order   Two  
    Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster
  • Art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

    Art   Sculpture   Denial  
  • It is fateful and ironic how the lie we need in order to live dooms us to a life that is never really ours.

    Lying   Order   Ironic  
    Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.56, Simon and Schuster
  • Lots of people there seemed to be in denial, in absolute denial, of death - everybody's pretending that death doesn't happen in L.A.; if you do enough exercise and take enough wheatgrass and have your pill every day, you might not die.

    Exercise   People   Pills  
  • What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms.

    Mean   Animal   Self  
    Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
  • Man cannot endure his own littleness unless he can translate it into meaningfulness on the largest possible level.

    Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press
  • The denial of death is openly acknowledged as a significant trait of our culture. The tears of the bereaved have become comparable to the excretions of the diseased

  • What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one is food for worms. This is the terror: to have emerged from nothing, to have a name, consiousness of self, deep inner feelings, an excruciating inner yearning for life and self-expression and with all this yet to die. It seems like a hoax, which is why one type of cultural man rebels openly against the idea of God. What kind of deity would crate such a complex and fancy worm food?

    Mean   Men   Animal  
    Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.87, Simon and Schuster
  • All my life as an artist I have asked myself: What pushes me continually to make sculpture? I have found the answer. art is an action against death. It is a denial of death.

    Art   Sculpture   Denial  
  • If the denial of death is self-hatred, as it is to deny our freedom and live in fear of death (which is to say, to live in a form of bondage), then the acceptance and affirmation of death is indeed a form of self-love. But I'd want to make a distinction between a form of self-love which is essential to what it means to be human, and a narcissism of self-regard, like Rousseau's distinction between amour de soi and amour propre, self-love and pride.

    Mean   Pride   Acceptance  
  • The man of knowledge in our time is bowed down under a burden he never imagined he would ever have: the overproduction of truth that cannot be consumed.

    Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.18, Simon and Schuster
  • It is the denial of death that is partially responsible for people living empty, purposeless lives; for when you live as if you'll live forever, it becomes too easy to postpone the things you know that you must do.

    People   Forever   Denial  
  • The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

    Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.66, Simon and Schuster
  • the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith

    Ernest Becker (2014). “The Denial of Death”, p.79, Souvenir Press
  • With actors, all our ages are out there for all to see - you can't hide anything, really. And it's kind of a relief. This is my age, this is what I look like without makeup on - who cares? That youth culture - that lying about your age - it's all denial of death anyway.

    Lying   Makeup   Age  
  • A man begins dying at the moment of his birth. Most People live in denial of Death's patient courtship until, late in life and deep in sickness, they become aware of him sitting bedside.

    Death   Men   People  
    Dean Koontz (2007). “The Husband: A Novel”, p.12, Bantam
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