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Feelings Quotes by George Orwell
- A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague…
- Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual…
- Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
- Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards…
- It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going…
- Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture.…
- He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a…
- The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out…
- Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or…
- Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the…
- When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases - bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the…
- The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air…
- I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary…
- The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be…
More Feelings Quotes
- In every song I write, whether it's a love song or a political song or a song about family, the one thing… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made… — J. J. Abrams
- No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too. — Teresa of Avila
- A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about… — Irving Babbitt
- When everything happens to you when you're so young, you're very lucky, but by the same token, you're never going to have… — Lauren Bacall
- When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give… — Lauren Bacall
- The music business is motivated by money. Music is motivated by energy and feelings. — Erykah Badu
- I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's… — Erykah Badu
- I grew up as a Mormon, and that had more of an impact on my values than my beliefs. I'm afraid I… — Amy Adams
- Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself. — Andre Balazs