"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."

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Source : Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

Ernest Becker

#Men Quotes #Two Quotes #Feet Quotes

“Nobody's happy. What's happy? Happiness is over when the lights come on." The older woman poured herself a glass of sangria. "Screw that," she said quietly. "What?" "Screw that. Wash your mouth out. Who taught you that half-assed existential drivel?”
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
“We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart.”
“But the fact is that the vast majority of Republicans support the Sinn Fein leadership.”
“The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street executives for the massive fraud that precipitated the 2008 financial crisis.”
“If you're in the penalty area and don't know what to do with the ball, put it in the net and we'll discuss the options later.”
“All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.”
“It's not a mid-life crisis. It's a mid-life disaster. A mid-life crisis is when you wake up with everything and you go "I have everything but I'm still unhappy."”

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