Life Quotes by George Orwell

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.

— 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

“Only child life is real life.”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

“He led a ghostlike existence”

— George Orwell

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

— George Orwell

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

— 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

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

— George Orwell

The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.

— George Orwell

In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer...

— George Orwell

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection � that one is prepared in the end to be…

— George Orwell

“Past events, it is argued, have no objective existence, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is…

— George Orwell

“I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created…

— George Orwell

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as…

— George Orwell

“people ignorant of one another’s existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same—people”

— George Orwell

By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to…

— George Orwell

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

The existence of good bad literature—the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's…

— George Orwell

A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life…

— George Orwell

There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always— do not…

— George Orwell

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter…

— George Orwell

The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a…

— 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

“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

“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

“[Hitler] has grasped the falsity of the hedonistic attitude to life. Nearly all western thought since the last war, certainly all “progressive”…

— George Orwell

“Winston: I don't know - I don't care. Somehow you will fail. Something will defeat you. Life will defeat you. O'Brian: We…

— George Orwell

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

— George Orwell