Astonishment Quote by George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

“fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it is therefore…

— Victor Hugo

“And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking…

— George Orwell

“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past.…

— Natsume Sōseki

“His problem was the eternal question: What should he be? Inventor, scientist, artist—the energy he felt surging through him, an energy far more than…

— Pearl S. Buck

“I noted with a sick interest how excruciating pain could take the fear right out of dying. (Touch of Power)”

— Maria Snyder

“He suspected that any life form that inflicted unnecessary pain tended to find its consciousness eroding. Without consciousness to reflect back upon life, all…

— Frank Herbert

“But now, this time, finally, he felt the anguish and pain thrusting out from deep inside, consciously, knowingly; an emotional agony boiled up within,…

— Anonymous

“My body is in a state of perpetual contradiction, alive with anticipation and simultaneously dead of all other emotion.”

— Alex Morel

“He was as incapable of imagining pain or danger to himself as he was incapable of conceiving the pain he caused others.”

— Graham Greene