Eric Hoffer Quotes

To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.

Hope is life's essential nutrient, and love is what gives life meaning

Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.

While some no other cause for life can give, but a dull habitude to live.

Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.

Love is the reason you were born.

Maybe people become bitter when they don't know what they are fighting for. But I keep my eyes open.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Is anything worth it?

A dream is what makes people love life even when it is painful.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Where there is hope...there is life

It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.

I found the purpose of my existence, and also the purpose of my circumstance. There's a purpose for why you're in the fire.

As long as you and I are still breathing, we have a purpose to serve

The pain and suffering that comes to us has a purpose in our lives-it is trying to teach us something. We should look for its lesson.

But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.

What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you.

To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

There will come a time when everybody will know why, for what purpose, there is all this suffering, and there will be no more mysteries. But now we must live ... we must work, just work!

We can’t live without hope. When we keep hoping, we keep living.

A day merely survived is no cause for celebration.