The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.

  • -- Ernest Becker 厄内斯特·贝克尔

人类处境的讽刺之处在于,人类最深切的需要是摆脱对死亡和毁灭的焦虑;但正是生命本身唤醒了它,所以我们必须逃避完全活着。