"The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely to avoid the fatality of death, to overcome it by denying in some way that it is the final destiny of man."

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Source : Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Becker

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“Darkness approaches from outside. I feel no light inside me strong enough to resist it.”

Source : Christopher Pike (2012). “Thirst No. 1: The Last Vampire, Black Blood, Red Dice”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
“The people who care about us the most are the ones who are most likely to hold us back.”

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“I feel that non-violence is really the only way that we can follow because violence is just so self-defeating. A riot ends up creating many more problems for the negro community than it solved. We can through violence burn down a building, but you can't establish justice. You can murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder through violence. You can murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. And what we're trying to get rid of is hate, injustice, and all of these other things that continue the long night of man's inhumanity to man.”
“I've never known an auctioneer to lie unless it was absolutely necessary.”
“If you wanted to put the world to rights, who should you begin with: yourself or others?”
“What if the beauty around us is meant as a reminder for the many gifts we have been given and our need to give thanks to them?”
“America has receded from the world. Today our friends and allies don't trust us. And our enemies don't fear us. I think we should get back, number one, to American leadership in the world.”
“My heart is at ease knowing that what was meant for me will never miss me, and that what misses me was never meant for me.”

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