Life Quotes by George Orwell

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

— George Orwell

“Only child life is real life.”

— George Orwell

“...inequality was the unalterable law of human life.”

— George Orwell

Every life viewed from the inside is a series of defeats.

— George Orwell

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

— George Orwell

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

— George Orwell

“He led a ghostlike existence”

— George Orwell

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

— George Orwell

“Life's here to be lived, and if we're going to be in the soup next week - well, next week is a…

— George Orwell

The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.

— George Orwell

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

— George Orwell

The prime necessities for success in life are money, athleticism, tailor made clothes and a charming smile.

— George Orwell

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

— George Orwell

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

— George Orwell

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

— George Orwell

“The idea that you can somehow remain aloof from and superior to the struggle [World War II], while living on food which…

— George Orwell

“I am twelve years old and have had over four hundred children. Such is the natural life of a pig. But no…

— George Orwell

“The main motive for "non-attachment" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual…

— George Orwell

The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual…

— George Orwell

As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with…

— George Orwell

“Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of…

— George Orwell

A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply…

— George Orwell

It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way…

— George Orwell

The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life…

— George Orwell

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All…

— George Orwell

Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable…

— George Orwell

“Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even…

— George Orwell

Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever…

— George Orwell

“For it is the condition of his rule that he shall spend his life trying to impress the 'natives,' and so in…

— George Orwell

“To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes…

— George Orwell

“A person of bourgeois origin goes through life with some expectation of getting what he wants, within reasonable limits. Hence the fact…

— George Orwell

“He meditated resentfully on the physical texture of life. Had it always been like this? Had food always tasted like this? He…

— George Orwell

“This business of petty inconvenience and indignity, of being kept waiting about, of having to do everything at other people’s convenience, is…

— George Orwell

“And in every detail of your life, if no ultimate purpose redeemed it, there was a quality of greyness, of desolation, that…

— George Orwell

“The majority of pacifists either belong to obscure religious sects or are simply humanitarians who object to taking life and prefer not…

— George Orwell

“It is curious, but till that moment I had never realized what it means to destroy a healthy, conscious man. When I…

— George Orwell

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust…

— George Orwell

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold,…

— George Orwell

“For the first time in my life I took to writing things on walls. The passage-ways of several smart restaurants had '…

— George Orwell

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

— George Orwell