Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people–people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was more natural to exist from moment to moment, accepting another ten minutes' life even with the certainty that there was… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Ogilvy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Now, comrades, what is the nature of this life of ours? Let us face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“He slowed his pace a little. He was thirty and there was grey in his hair, yet he had a queer feeling… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“The invention of print, however, made it easier to manipulate public opinion, and the film and the radio carried the process further.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Life goes on much the same. In the face of terrifying dangers and golden political opportunities, people just keep-on keeping-on in a… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
It was true that there was no such person as Comrade Oglivy, but a few lines of print and a couple of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 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
It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff… — 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
“the technical advance which made it possible to receive and transmit simultaneously on the same instrument, private life came to an end.… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Beyond the late Fifties everything faded. When there were no external records that you could refer to, even the outline of your… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“But the trouble is that conscious futility is something only for the young. One cannot go on "despairing of life" in to… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
People invent new machines and improve existing ones almost unconsciously, rather as a Somnambulist will go walking in his sleep. The interesting… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
