George Orwell on darkness
George Orwell105 quotes“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
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To die hating them, that was freedom.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Free speech is my right to say what you don’t want to hear.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
George OrwellGeorge Orwell At 50, everyone has the face he deserves.
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ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
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More on darkness
Having the answers is not essential to living. What is essential is the sense of God’s presence during dark seasons of questioning.
Ravi ZachariasRavi Zacharias Beginning with the early dawn of each day, I will radiate joy to everyone I meet. I will be mental sunshine for all who cross my path. Before the unfailing light of my cheer, darkness will take flight.
Paramahansa YoganandaParamahansa Yogananda All the forces of darkness need to succeed … is for the people to do nothing.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke We all show our true colors eventually – mine is dark and firesome red. I bet I burned you. I don’t expect to see you soon.
Emily KurcEmily Kurc The Christian faith does not call for us to put our minds on the shelf, to fly in the face of common sense and history, or to make a leap of faith into the dark. The rational person, fully apprised of the evidence, can confidently believe.
William Lane CraigWilliam Lane Craig I am not scared of what I may find within the darkness of this forest line. But I do fear what the wild may find in me. I do fear that kind of vulnerability.
Teraza FaulknerTeraza Faulkner The issue is now clear. It is between light and darkness and everyone must choose his side.
G. K. ChestertonG. K. Chesterton I love seeing people come out of darkness.
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