Eric Hoffer Quotes About Dying

Quotes about: Dying

• Death has but one terror, that it has no tomorrow.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Dying, Tomorrow

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

• To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for. It is only when we see ourselves as actors in a staged (and therefore unreal) performance that death loses its frightfulness and finality and becomes an act of make-believe and a theatrical gesture. It is one of the main tasks of a real leader to mask the grim reality of dying and killing by evoking in his followers the illusion that they are participating in a grandiose spectacle, a solemn or lighthearted dramatic performance.

  Eric Hoffer

  Real, Believe, Self

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

• How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Dying, World

  "Thoughts of Eric Hoffer, Including: 'Absolute Faith Corrupts Absolutely". The New York Times Magazine, p. 62, April 25, 1971.

• There is need for some kind of make-believe in order to face death unflinchingly. To our real, naked selves there is not a thing on earth or in heaven worth dying for.

  Eric Hoffer

  Death, Real, Believe

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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