Quote

He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable.

George Orwell

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

George Orwell
Age: 46 †
Born: 1903
Born: June 25
Died: 1950
Died: January 21
Autobiographer
Bookseller
Essayist
Journalist
Literary Critic
Novelist
Opinion Journalist
Poet
Screenwriter
War Correspondent
Writer
Eric Blair
P. S. Burton
Eric Arthur Blair
John Freeman
Nineteen
Unimaginable
Dead
Alone
Future
Past

More quotes by George Orwell

Image
A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks.
George Orwell
Image
There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic.
George Orwell
Image
From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned.
George Orwell
Image
Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law.
George Orwell
Image
The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
George Orwell
Image
Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception.
George Orwell
Image
If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?
George Orwell
Image
We do not merely destroy our enemies we change them.
George Orwell
Image
All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth.
George Orwell
Image
A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?
George Orwell
Image
If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.
George Orwell
Image
Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them.
George Orwell
Image
Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another.
George Orwell
Image
People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word.
George Orwell
Image
One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.
George Orwell
Image
It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
George Orwell
Image
What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person.
George Orwell
Image
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell
Image
Truth becomes untruth if uttered by your enemy
George Orwell
Image
Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.
George Orwell