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Eric Hoffer Quotes about Death

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.

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 (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.

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

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

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