Alive Quote by Ernest Becker

In the twentieth century, death terrifies men less than the absence of real life. All these dead, mechanized, specialized actions, stealing a little bit…

— Raoul Vaneigem

The need is to satisfy our soul and we nevereven try to grow above our timely physical needs. We live and die satisfying our…

— Senora Roy

“And there is no question that we are preoccupied by dying. But why? It is because when we die, we leave behind not only…

— Maurice Blanchot

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

— Leon Kass

We are all, always, the desire not to die. This desire is as immeasurable and varied as life's complexity, but at bottom this is…

— Henri Barbusse

“Man’s mortality is therefore a phenomenon that runs counter to his nature in that it opposes that for which he has been designed. This…

— Archimandrite Zacharias Zacharou

Death is what men want when the anguish of living is more than they can bear.

— Euripides

Nothing is so important to man as his own state; nothing is so formidable to him as eternity. And thus it is unnatural that…

— Blaise Pascal

Not to be content with Life is the unsatisfactory state of those which destroy themselves; who being afraid to live, run blindly upon their…

— Thomas Browne

But man has other needs as well: emotional needs. These, too, are few, but every bit as important as his physical requirements, yet not…

— Leo Buscaglia

That is perhaps what we seek throughout life, that and nothing more, the greatest possible sorrow so as to become fully ourselves before dying.

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives full is prepared to die at any tym.

— Jasmine