--- title: "6 Physical pain Quotes By George Orwell" description: "6 Physical pain quotes by George Orwell. Plus more from George Orwell and more Physical pain sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_190198.jpg" --- > [“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physical-pain/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_190198.jpg) > [“One question at any rate was answered. Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/one-question-at-any-rate-was-answered-never-for-any-reason-on-earth/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f5c/george-orwell-57_nature_one-question-at-any-rate-was-answered-ne_741699.jpg) > [“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/of-pain-you-could-wish-only-one-thing-that-it-should-stop-nothing-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/848/george-orwell-57_pain_of-pain-you-could-wish-only-one-thing-th_787840.jpg) > [Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/of-pain-you-could-wish-only-one-thing-that-it-should-stop-nothing-in-2/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/356/george-orwell-57_faces_of-pain-you-could-wish-only-one-thing-th_1282749.jpg) > [“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physical-pain-in-the-face-of-pain/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c84/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_1640362.jpg) > [“Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase of pain. Of pain you could only wish for one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/never-for-any-reason-on-earth-could-you-wish-for-an-increase-of-pain/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/811/george-orwell-57_1984_never-for-any-reason-on-earth-could-you_2624148.jpg) ## Other authors on Physical pain - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-gabor-mate-36627.jpg) Gabor Mate 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/physical-pain/gabor-mat/) ## More by George Orwell > [In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/in-the-nineteenth-century-some-parts-of-the-world-were-unexplored-but/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/it-was-given-out-that-the-animals-there-practised-cannibalism/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/the-actual-writing-would-be-easy-all-he-had-to-do-was-to-transfer-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/he-felt-as-though-he-were-wandering-in-the-forests-of-the-sea-bottom/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“if you took 1 Corinthians, chapter thirteen, and in every verse wrote 'money' instead of 'charity', the chapter had ten times as much meaning…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/if-you-took-1-corinthians-chapter-thirteen-and-in-every-verse-wrote/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Happiness can exist only in acceptance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/happiness-can-exist-only-in-acceptance/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-if-all-others-accepted-the-lie-which-the-party-imposed-if-all/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Whitman himself "accepted" a great deal that his contemporaries found unmentionable. For he is not only writing of the prairie, he also wanders through…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/whitman-himself-accepted-a-great-deal-that-his-contemporaries-found/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“But I tell you, Winston, that reality is not external. Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Whatever the Party holds to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/but-i-tell-you-winston-that-reality-is-not-external-reality-exists-in/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-people-under-the-sky-were-also-very-much-the-same-everywhere/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/don-t-you-see-that-the-whole-aim-of-newspeak-is-to-narrow-the-range/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/windmill-or-no-windmill-he-said-life-would-go-on-as-it-had-always/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/man-is-the-only-creature-that-consumes-without-producing-he-does-not/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/and-the-bigger-the-fall-the-bigger-the-joke-it-would-be-better-fun-to/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) > [“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/any-writer-or-journalist-who-wants-to-retain-his-integrity-finds/) [George Orwell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-orwell/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/physical-pain/george-orwell/#itemlist", "name": "6 Physical pain Quotes By George Orwell", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "George Orwell" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-orwell/nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physical-pain/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_190198.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_190198.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/654/george-orwell-57_pain_nothing-in-the-world-was-so-bad-as-physi_190198.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain.” — George Orwell", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“One question at any rate was answered. 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