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Terror Quotes by Ernest Becker
- I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived…
- 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…
- To live fully is to live with an awareness of the rumble of terror that underlies everything.
More Terror Quotes
- The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated. — Charles Baudelaire
- The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts… — George W. Bush
- A man must thank his defects, and stand in some terror of his talents. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in… — Oscar Wilde
- To be feared is to fear. No one has been able to strike terror into others and at the same time enjoy… — Seneca the Younger
- There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as… — William Shakespeare
- . . . as far as the regime is concerned, well, the play is sheer terror for them. Because they feel, How… — Wole Soyinka
- A revolution cannot progress without the fuel of terror. With time that relationship inverts: the revolution presses forward for the sake of… — Young-Ha Kim