"It is a sign of creeping inner death when we can no longer praise the living." ― Eric Hoffer Topic(s): Death More From Eric Hoffer "Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature." "Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves." "The greatest weariness comes from work not done." More In Death "It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numerical reckonings of death and destruction that ought to break our hearts or scare us out of our wits."― Wendell Berry "I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate."― Jack Kevorkian "If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death."― Paul Lynde