Taighe

“I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done in the lived truth of the terror of creation, of the grotesque, of the rumble of panic underneath everything. Otherwise it is false.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death

“But the days are a web of small troubles,
And is there a greater blessing
Than to be the ash of which oblivion is made?
Pero los dias son una red de triviales miserias,
y habra suerte mejor que la ceniza
de que esat hecho el ovido?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Poems

“My daddy used to tell me not to chew on something that was eatin you.”
― Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

“We can conclude that a project as grand as the scientific-mythical construction of victory over human limitation is not something that can be programmed by science. Even more, it comes from the vital energies of masses of men sweating within the nightmare of creation-and it is not even in man's hands to program. Who knows what form the forward momentum of life will take in the time ahead or what use it will make of our anguished searching. The most that any one of us can seem to do is to fashion something-an object or ourselves-and drop it into the confusion, make an offering of it, so to speak, to the life force.”
― Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death