Ernest Becker Quote

When you confuse personal love and cosmic heroism you are bound to fail in both spheres. The impossibility of the heroism undermines the love, even if it is real. This double failure is what produces the sense of utter despair that we see in modern man... Love, then, is seen a religious problem

The Denial of Death (ed. Simon and Schuster, 1997) - ISBN: 9780684832401