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The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb.

Mortality, Illness, Death, Vulnerability, Suffering

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

The hospital is the antechamber to the tomb

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More George Orwell Quotes

“Nothing exists except through human consciousness.”

Existence, Consciousness, Reality, Philosophy, Perception

“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.”

Existence, Loneliness, Humanity, Dystopia, Identity

“You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves.”

Control, Identity, Power, Humanity, Manipulation

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

Conversation, Connection, Insanity, Perception, Understanding

“If there is hope, it lies in the proles.”

Hope, Society, Revolution, Proletariat, Future

“I doubt whether classical education ever has been or can be successfully carried out without corporal punishment.”

Education, Discipline, Tradition, Society, Critique

“It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children.”

Fear, Generation Gap, Control, Society, Authority

“Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.”

Advertising, Perception, Society, Critique, Culture

“A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world, there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything.”

Progress, Pain, Humanity, Society, Emotion

“People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.”

Violence, Society, Security, Protection, Reality

“The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated.”

Communism, Patriotism, Identity, Society, Intellectualism

“The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”

Power, Corruption, Equality, Irony, Society

“Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does.”

Equality, Society, Morality, Community, Responsibility

“The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia’s life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal.”

Symbolism, Love, Eternity, Memory, Tranquility

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

Truth, Perception, Control, Manipulation, Obedience

“Cricket is a game full of forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune, and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business.”

Cricket, Hope, Fortune, Ethics, Uncertainty

“All art is propaganda; on the other hand, not all propaganda is art.”

Art, Propaganda, Expression, Influence, Creativity

“If there was hope, it must lie in the proles, because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated.”

Hope, Proletariat, Rebellion, Society, Change

“The end was contained in the beginning.”

Fate, Destiny, Continuity, Philosophy, Time

“The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to act a part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in.”

Hate, Society, Conformity, Control, Emotion