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Death Quotes by Ernest Becker
- The idea of death, the fear of it, haunts the human animal like nothing else; it is a mainspring of human activity - designed largely…
- Each society is a hero system which promises victory over evil and death.
- For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed…
- 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…
- What is the ideal for mental health, then? A lived, compelling illusion that does not lie about life, death, and reality; one honest enough to…
More Death Quotes
- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or… — Giorgio Armani
- I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids… — J. J. Abrams
- Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying… — Karen Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- Truth sits upon the lips of dying men. — Matthew Arnold
- Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
- Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- To save your world you asked this man to die; would this man, could he see you now, ask why? — Wystan Hugh Auden