💬 Quotes

"Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery."

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"Ending is better than mending."

"Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't."

"As if one kills things by naming them."

"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

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

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

"Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."

"He loved Big Brother."

"To love is to destroy, and to be loved is to be the one destroyed."

"All the stories are true."

"There’s no fiction. Only people, telling us how to be human."

"I’m not interested in being perfect. I’m interested in being alive."

"As long as there is memory, the past exists."

"I love you. I have loved you since the moment I saw you, and I will love you until the moment I die. And if there is a life after that, I will love you then."

"Es gibt Welten, von denen wir nichts wissen, und in denen wir, wenn wir in sie eindringen, nicht als Herrscher, sondern als Diener wandeln müssen."

"Wir sind im Zeitalter der Wissenschaft, wo man nicht mehr an das Übernatürliche glaubt, doch das Böse bleibt eine Konstante, die sich jeder Logik entzieht."

"Das Blut ist das Leben! Ein Satz, der so alt ist wie die Menschheit und doch eine neue, schreckliche Bedeutung erlangt hat."