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

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Source : Ernest Becker (1985). “The Denial of Death”, New York : Free Press

Ernest Becker

#Men Quotes #Levels Quotes #Existentialism Quotes

“I remember watching Barbra Streisand and seeing Jennifer Grey in 'Dirty Dancing' - these were people who acted like me and looked like me. Now it's great that everyone on 'Glee' is so unique and people can relate to us and look up to us.”
“I guess money can't buy happiness if you shop in the wrong places.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.371, Penguin
“[Having] appropriated to itself all conscious intelligence in the universe ...Man faces the existential crisis of being a solitary and mortal conscious ego thrown into an ultimately meaningless and unknowable universe ...and the psychological and biological crisis of living in a world that has come to be shaped in such a way that it precisely matches his world view-i.e., in a man-made environment that is increasingly mechanistic, atomized, soulless, and self-destructive.”
“I don't want to deny my femininity. But would I want to be a stay-at-home mother? No. On the other hand, you should be allowed to do that, as should men, without being sneered at.”

Source : "Keira Knightley Engaged: Actress Talks Marriage In ‘Vogue’", www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2012.
“I represent a district in Nevada, a state that is home to more wild horses than all other states combined.”
“I think we are all disgusted by the way George W. Bush's administration has allowed honesty and candor to seep into the genteel world of international affairs.”
“'Tis spring; come out to ramble The hilly brakes around, For under thorn and bramble About the hollow ground The primroses are found. And there's the windflower chilly With all the winds at play, And there's the Lenten lily That has not long to stay And dies on Easter day.”
“I never say what I mean, but I always manage to say something similar.”

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