Ernest Becker Quotes About Guilt

Quotes about: Guilt

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

  Ernest Becker

  Guilt, Results

  Ernest Becker (1997). “The Denial of Death”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

• If the love object is divine perfection, then one's own self is elevated by joining one's destiny to it... All our guilt, fear, and even our mortality itself can be purged in a perfect consummation with perfection itself.

  Ernest Becker

  Destiny, Self, Perfect

• Why would a person prefer the accusations of guilt, unworthiness, ineptitude — even dishonor and betrayal — to real possibility? This may not seem to be the choice, but it is: complete self-effacement, surrender to the “others,” disavowal of any personal dignity or freedom — on the one hand; and freedom and independence, movement away from the others, extrication of oneself from the binding links of family and social duties-on the other hand. This is the choice that the depressed person actually faces.

  Ernest Becker

  Betrayal, Real, Depressed Person

  "The Denial of Death".

• Relationship is thus always slavery of a kind, which leaves a residue of guilt.

  Ernest Becker

  Guilt, Slavery, Kind

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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

  Ernest Becker

  Responsibility, Guilt, Burden

  Ernest Becker (2007). “The Denial of Death”, p.213, Simon and Schuster

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