The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But it was frightening: or, more exactly, it was like a foretaste of death, like being a little less alive.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
[You write out of the] desire to seem clever, to be talked about, to be remembered after death, etc., etc., etc. It… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think, as… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“...This was not illegal, (nothing was illegal since there were no longer laws), but if detected it was reasonably certain that it… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He was already dead, he reflected. It seemed to him that it was only now, when he had begun to be able… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was curious how that predestined horror moved in and out of one’s consciousness. There it lay, fixed in future times, preceding… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death, but I think now,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There it lay, fixed in future time, preceding death as surely as 99 precedes 100. One could not avoid it, but one… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened —that, surely,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We are the dead,' he said. 'We're not dead yet,' said Julia prosaically. 'Not physically. Six months, a year – five years,… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was as though they were intentionally stepping nearer to their graves. As he sat waiting on the edge of the bed… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“His mother’s death, nearly thirty years ago, had been tragic and sorrowful in a way that was no longer possible. Tragedy, he… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The history books say that life before the Revolution was completely different from what it is now. There was the most terrible… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone you loved… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Under ground, under ground! Down in the safe soft womb of earth, where there is no getting of jobs or losing of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“We say that a man's dead when his heart stops and not before. It seems a bit arbitrary. After all, parts of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did… — George Orwell Copy Share
It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was… — George Orwell Copy Share
“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running… — George Orwell Copy Share
He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the… — George Orwell Copy Share
“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning… — George Orwell Copy Share
And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through… — George Orwell Copy Share
“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to… — George Orwell Copy Share
“And the people under the sky were also very much the same...everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just… — George Orwell Copy Share
Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally… — George Orwell Copy Share
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share
“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to… — George Orwell Copy Share
And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at… — George Orwell Copy Share
“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.… — George Orwell Copy Share
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