Quotes by Hoffer, Eric

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion eve >>

It is the stretched soul that makes music, and souls are stretched by >>

The remarkable thing is that it is the crowded life that is most easil >>

Quotations about Escapism

The shortest way out of Manchester is notoriously a bottle of Gordon's >>

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from >>

What fugitive from his country can also escape from himself. >>

Man staggers through life yapped at by his reason, pulled and shoved by his appetites, whispered to by fears, beckoned by hopes. Small wonder that what he craves most is self-forgetting.

Hoffer, Eric