Life Quote by George Orwell

It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its…

— George Orwell

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“The tragic element in modern man, not ignore the meaning of his life, but it bothers him less and less. ”

— Vaclav Havel

“It marked, further, the decay or going to pieces of his moral nature, a vain thing and a handicap in the ruthless struggle for…

— Jack London

“Though it took enormous courage and virtue to risk your life in order to protect society, such selflessness also contained, at least from the…

— David Grann

“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.”

— Confucius

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

“Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Through the years of his struggle, he had learned that an apparently causeless antagonism was not hard to deal with, but an apparently causeless…

— Ayn Rand

“Certainly man is a remarkably vain, variable, and elusive subject.10 It is hard to base any constant, uniform judgment upon him.”

— Michel de Montaigne

“And he makes all sorts of people feel that he has exactly what they’ve been looking for. Subtlety for the subtle. Warmth for the…

— Saul Bellow

“—his indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love.”

— Henry James