Ernest Becker Quotes

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

Ernest Becker

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• My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • School
  • Parents
  • Passion

• Defendants are being evaluated based on numerical grid without any aggravating circumstances being considered. The effect has been to transfer the disparity from the judge to the prosecutor allowing for a great deal of leeway on indictments.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Great
  • Judge
  • Circumstances

• Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you?

  

  Fanny Brice
  • World
  • Think
  • Know

• We would like to make it quite clear that we are not migrants into the U.K. But we are the citizens of a state that belongs to the European Union who can take jobs anywhere freely within the European Union.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • Like
  • Take
  • Citizens

• As hitters, I think we take for granted at times how good our hands are and just how much the value of truly getting the barrel to the ball is. We don't have to do as much as we think we have to.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Good
  • Value
  • Hands

• Zionism is a revolutionary process. And in a revolution, you must be ready not to think too much about sentiments or human weaknesses.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Think
  • Revolution
  • Process

• I just don't like to do a lot of the normal things expected of other artists. I'm not trying to be difficult; I'm just trying to stick with what it is I want to do.

  

  Damien Rice
  • Trying
  • Want
  • Difficult

• I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Life
  • Music
  • Rest

• He loved her so passionately he wanted her to be one soul and one body with him; and he was conscious that here, with those deep roots attaching her to the native life, she would always keep something from him.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Life
  • Love
  • Soul

• What, without asking, hither hurried Whence? And, without asking, Whither hurried hence! Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine Must drown the memory of that insolence!

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Wine

• Perhaps our own fin-de-siècle decadence takes the form, not of libertarian excess, but of the kind of over-the-top puritanism we see in political correctness and the assorted moral certainties of physical fitness fanatics, New Agers and animal-rights activists.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Political
  • Moral
  • Animal

• All-powerful god, who am I but the fear that I inspire in others?

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • God
  • Fear
  • Powerful

• It may sound lame, but I've been journaling since I was in third grade. I love it! It makes me feel calm and happy.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • May
  • Happy
  • Calm

• If you develop a dialogue with me and take an interest in me, I'll want to give you the business. It's human nature.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Business
  • Nature

• I love playing the piano. I have one in my apartment, and I learnt by ear. I sing a lot of Coldplay, but do my own stuff too.

  

  Christopher Egan

• At my confirmation, where you get the Holy Spirit, I came down the stairs at my party and had torn, like, 80 holes in my pantyhose and said I had the Holy Spirit, and just would do things like that all the time.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Time
  • Party

• A 'live' show is either alive or not. Free speech is free or it is not. Viewers are free to use their remote or TiVo. Parents are responsible or they are not.

  

  Frank Pierson
  • Live
  • Parents
  • Free

• I love the Museum of the Moving Image, and I like the idea of bringing artifacts of the cinema into a museum.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Moving

• As a kid, I lived almost entirely inside books, and eventually the books started returning the favor. A lot of my internal world feels like an anthology, or a library. It's eclectic and disorganized, but I can browse in it, and that hugely shapes both what and how I write.

  

  Kathryn Schulz
  • World
  • Library

• Almost as soon as it aired, 'Late Night' became one of the most buzzed-about shows on television.

  

  Jeanne Marie Laskas
  • Night

• Hold on to your dreams of a better life and stay committed to striving to realize it.

  

  Earl G. Graves, Sr.
  • Life

• If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.

  

  Bill Wyman The Rolling Stones
  • People
  • Music
  • Live

• Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

  

  Ernest Becker
  • Freedom
  • Responsibility
  • Terrible