Clyde Christopher

“The real world is simply too terrible to admit; it tells man that he is a small, trembling animal who will decay and die.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“Kierkegaard put it this way: But while one sort of despair plunges wildly into the infinite and loses itself, a second sort permits itself as it were to be defrauded by “the others.” By seeing the multitude of men about it, by getting engaged in all sorts of wordly affairs, by becoming wise about how things go in this world, such a man forgets himself… does not dare to believe in himself, finds it too venturesome a thing to be himself, far easier and safer to be like the others, to become an imitation, a number, a cipher in the crowd.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“death holds up an all-seeing mirror, ‘the mirror of past actions’, to our eyes, in which the consequences of all our negative and positive actions are clearly seen and there is a weighing of our past actions in the light of their consequences, the balance of which will determine the kind of existence or mental state we are being driven to enter.”
― Padmasambhava, The Tibetan Book of the Dead. First Complete Translation

“Nothing happened if she kept waiting for what was going to happen .”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart