Ernest Becker Quotes

Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

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• In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• Fast food is the one thing everyone can relate to. It's depressing, but also interesting, that people desire to eat the same sandwich in every single city in the world. But the biggest bummer is when you see a Subway in Berlin. Just devastating.

  

  Patrick Carney The Black Keys
  • People
  • World
  • Interesting

• I did a gig at a comedy club in Bournemouth where they served a buffet while the acts were on. There was the clang of people carving turkey during the set. If you put comedy and turkey side by side, turkey always wins.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Always

• In many parts of the world, chaining of people with mental illnesses is not uncommon, nor is seeing people walking around in clearly an unwell state, half naked, and no one takes any notice of them. It is tragic. There is a basic human right, which is not about just healthcare, but it is about the right to life with dignity, a right to citizenship.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• There are many kids in and out of baseball who think that just because they have some natural talent, they have the world by the tail.

  

  Hack Wilson
  • World
  • Kids
  • Baseball

• Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Always
  • Battle
  • Finding

• To me, patriotism is about working ethically and wholeheartedly in our chosen field.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Working
  • Chosen
  • Patriotism

• Manhood is taking care of your family and being able to bless other people. Not yourself - but whether you can bless other people.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Family
  • Yourself

• I love acting, but I want to explore other things.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Love
  • Things
  • Acting

• I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Up
  • Think
  • Myself

• Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement — meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Art
  • Awareness
  • Oneness

• To fear death is nothing other than to think oneself wise when one is not. For it is to think one knows what one does not know. No one knows whether death may not even turn out to be the greatest blessings of human beings. And yet people fear it as if they knew for certain it is the greatest evil.

  

  Socrates
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Evil

• Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure.

  

  Epictetus
  • Pain
  • Pleasure
  • Say

• Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Objects
  • Spectators
  • Refinement

• If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

  

  William McDonough
  • Years
  • Design
  • Trouble

• Bono is chairman and founding member of Over-Achievers Anonymous. He has an irrepressible drive to be great. He wants to achieve it all, which actually makes him very vulnerable.

  

  David Howell Evans U2
  • Achieve
  • Drive
  • Member

• Eakins rejected gentlemen athletics as his theme. Instead, he took a subject that had been the stuff of illustrated weeklies and the penny press and turned it into fine art. Eakins celebrates not fire from heaven but honest sweat, not genius but hard work.

  

  Barry S. Strauss
  • Genius
  • Press
  • Athletics

• You should keep in mind no names, nor numbers, nor isolated incidents, not even results, but only methods..The method produces numerous results; a few of these will remain in our memory, and as long as they remain few, they are useful to illustrate and to keep alive the rules which order a thousand results.

  

  Emanuel Lasker
  • Memory
  • Results
  • Names

• I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that.

  

  Steven Levitan
  • Family
  • View
  • Appreciative

• Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Happy
  • Sleep
  • Blessed

• You will always win if you make an effort, no matter how much. However, if you failed it means you were too lazy.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Win
  • Lazy
  • Means

• Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Results
  • Guilt