1984 George Orwell Winston Smith Quotes & Sayings

Winston Smith: Does Big Brother exist?
O'Brien: Of course he exists.
Winston Smith: Does he exist like you or me?
O'Brien: You do not exist. — George Orwell

Attraction is instinct, but action is a choice. — Erica Cameron

She played with her eyes closed. He closed his own eyes, joining her in the darkness. She had said the song depicted a battle, but nothing of the sort came to mind, no lofty images of horses and banners waving or battalions clashing over hills. Only darkness and a pure sound that filled him, creeping into spaces he hadn't known were empty. — Jeannie Lin

I believe everybody is spiritual and no one is any more spiritual than anyone else. — John McLaughlin

The Party said that Oceania had never been in alliance with Eurasia. He, Winston Smith, knew that Oceania had been in alliance with Eurasia as short a time as four years ago. But where did that knowledge exist? Only in his own consciousness, which in any case must soon be annihilated. 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 truth. 'Who controls the past,' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.' And yet the past, though of its nature alterable, never had been altered. Whatever was true now was true from everlasting to everlasting. It was quite simple. All that was needed was an unending series of victories over your own memory. 'Reality control', they called it: in Newspeak, 'doublethink'. — George Orwell

I'm not observant, personally, but if I ever see a priest resurrect the dead before my eyes I promise to revisit my atheism. — Matthew Yglesias

The aspiring novelist in me wants a secret tunnel hidden behind a false wall, or a poster of a famous movie star, or — Joe Hill

When we're born ... All of us ... Are free. People who reject that, no matter how strong they are ... Don't matter. — Hajime Isayama

I'm the quiet one with secrets in her head, but I let them go to the demons in my heart — Unknown

I'm a big fan of Elmore Leonard, and I've read Ian Rankin, Christopher Brookmyre and so on. But I'd never read a crime novel that made me feel emotional at the end. — John Gordon Sinclair

What worries me though, is that after all those victories people don't see me as a human being anymore. I am not a machine, I have a heart beating in my chest -not an engine, there's blood in my veins- not oil. I know pain and fatigue. I can lose but I will strive to win everything. — Evgeni Plushenko

It's easier to live with disappointment than regret. — Andre Agassi