136 Quotes by Ernest Becker

The road to creativity passes so close to the madhouse and often detours or ends there.

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.

We are gods with anuses.

The sadist doesn't create a masochist; he finds him already made.

We did not create ourselves, but we are stuck with ourselves.

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

Obviously, all religions fall far short of their own ideals.

The artist takes in the world, but instead of being oppressed by it, he reworks it in his own personality and recreates it in the work of art.

the best existential analysis of the human condition leads directly into the problems of God and faith