George Orwell Life Quotations

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper.

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.

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

I have no wish to take life, not even human life

I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

you can't live life without consequences. They occur regardless of the decision. A consequence is an outcome, good or bad. You can live life without regrets and thats what makes it worth it. Or you could live with regret and end up hanging yourself but thats still good. You paid for the rope so your feeding someones family. Something to be proud of before you kick the bucket

One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death.

An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

The further a society drifts from truth the more it will hate those who speak it.

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.

Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.