GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF GEORGE ORWELL

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell, 1984

“In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” - George Orwell

“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -  George Orwell

“War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” - George Orwell, 1984

“Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.” - George Orwell

“The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.”-  George Orwell, 1984

“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.” -  George Orwell

“If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” - George Orwell, 1984

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” -  George Orwell

GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF ALBERT CAMUS

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow

Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead

Walk beside me… just be my friend” -  Albert Camus

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -  Albert Camus

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -  Albert Camus

“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.” - Albert Camus

“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.” -  Albert Camus

“Should I kill myself, or have a cup of coffee?” - Albert Camus

“Live to the point of tears.” - Albert Camus

“But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.” - Albert Camus

“You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question.” - Albert Camus, The Fall

“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.” - Albert Camus

GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Easy reading is damn hard writing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

“To do nothing is the way to be nothing.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.” -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." -  Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Death should take me while I am in the mood.” - Nathaniel Hawthorne

GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF HOMER

“Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the earth, nothing is bred that is weaker than man.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“…There is the heat of Love, the pulsing rush of Longing, the lover’s whisper, irresistible—magic to make the sanest man go mad.” - Homer, The Iliad

“Any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we're doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.” -  Homer, The Iliad

“Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another.” - Homer, The Iliad

“There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“There is nothing more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Be strong, saith my heart; I am a soldier;

I have seen worse sights than this.” - Homer, The Odyssey

“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother” - Homer, The Odyssey

“Let me not then die ingloriously and without a struggle, but let me first do some great thing that shall be told among men hereafter.” - Homer, The Iliad

GREAT QUOTES OF FRANZ KAFKA

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF KAFKA

“A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.” - Franz Kafka

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.” - Franz Kafka

“Don't bend; don't water it down; don't try to make it logical; don't edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.” - Franz Kafka

“Many a book is like a key to unknown chambers within the castle of one’s own self.” - Franz Kafka

“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” - Franz Kafka

“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound or stab us. If the book we're reading doesn't wake us up with a blow to the head, what are we reading for? So that it will make us happy, as you write? Good Lord, we would be happy precisely if we had no books, and the kind of books that make us happy are the kind we could write ourselves if we had to. But we need books that affect us like a disaster, that grieve us deeply, like the death of someone we loved more than ourselves, like being banished into forests far from everyone, like a suicide. A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us. That is my belief.” - Franz Kafka

“I am free and that is why I am lost.” - Franz Kafka

“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.” - Franz Kafka

“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.” - Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis

“A First Sign of the Beginning of Understanding is the Wish to Die.” - Franz Kafka

GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE ALIGHIERI

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GREAT QUOTES OF DANTE

“Do not be afraid; our fate 

Cannot be taken from us; it is a gift.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“My course is set for an uncharted sea.” - Dante Alighieri

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” - Dante Alighieri

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to recall a happy time
When miserable.” - Dante Alighieri

“The path to paradise begins in hell.” - Dante Alighieri

“In that book which is my memory,
On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you,
Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.” - Dante Alighieri

“All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” - Dante Alighieri

“Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always” - Dante

“In the middle of the journey of our life I found myself within a dark woods where the straight way was lost.” - Dante Alighieri, Inferno

“The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and pain.” - Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy

GREAT QUOTES OF JOHN MILTON

 

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GREAT QUOTES OF MILTON

“The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven..” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“What hath night to do with sleep?” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.” - John Milton, Areopagitica

“Better to reign in Hell, than to serve in Heaven.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Solitude sometimes is best society.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Freely we serve

Because we freely love, as in our will

To love or not; in this we stand or fall.” - John Milton

“Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“Abashed the devil stood and felt how awful goodness is and saw Virtue in her shape how lovely: and pined his loss” - John Milton, Paradise Lost

“All is not lost, the unconquerable will, and study of revenge, immortal hate, and the courage never to submit or yield.” - John Milton, Paradise Lost