Discomfort Quote by George Orwell

“I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always the case when I get mixed up in war or politics. I am conscious of nothing save physical discomfort and a deep desire for this damn nonsense to be over. Afterwards I can see the…” quote by George Orwell — Download Open image

““I did not make any of the correct political reflections. I never do when things are happening. It seems to be always the case when I get mixed up in war or politics. I am conscious of nothing save physical discomfort and a deep desire for this damn nonsense to be over. Afterwards I can see the significance of events but while they're happening I merely want to be out of them.””

George Orwell

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings)

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 not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no…

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…

George Orwell

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

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

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

Image

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

George Orwell

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

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 the city and notes the shattered skull of the suicide, the "grey sick faces of onanists," etc., etc. But unquestionably our own age, at any rate in Western Europe, is less healthy and less hopeful than…

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…

George Orwell

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 like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same -- people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their…

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…

George Orwell

Image

Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly.

George Orwell

Image

Explore all 1,657 George Orwell quotes

More Discomfort quotes

A vacation is like love - anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.

Evan Esar

Image

We are a party of innovation. We do not reject our traditions, but we are willing to adapt to changing circumstances, when change we…

Barbara Jordan

Image

The purpose of art actually is, in many cases, to make you feel quite uncomfortable. Or at least to go to that place that's…

Michael Moore

Image

“Even discomfort or pain delivers awareness of life, and an opportunity for gratitude.”

Bryant McGill

Image

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pain, itching, and other discomforts. The belief has long died that…

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Image

“It is very difficult to convince a person to come out of his conservative shell, unless he feels discomfort there.”

Tarif Naaz

Image

Monotony and repetition are characteristic of many parts of life, but these do not become sources of conscious discomfort until novelty and entertainment are…

Mary Catherine Bateson

Image

You need to understand plant chemistry, be inured to discomfort and awesomely flexible. When something breaks down-the plane, the boat, you just have to…

Chris Kilham

Image

Intuitive guidance means having the self-esteem to recognize that the discomfort or confusion that a person feels is actually directing him to take charge…

Caroline Myss