George Orwell Quotes

The understanding that we reach a point where we stop becoming something and start ending as something. That comes at different times in different points in different people's lives, and obviously there are lots of people who experience the presence of death much more keenly and much earlier than I did. But we all come to grips with it eventually.

Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

It's a weird feeling when you know you're going to die.

Oncoming death is terrible enough, but worse still is oncoming death with time to spare, time in which all the happiness that was yours and all the happiness that might have been yours becomes clear to you. You see with utter lucidity all that you are losing.

Would it hurt to die? All those times he had thought it was about to happen and escaped, he had never really thought of the thing itself: his will to live had always been so much stronger than his fear of death.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Take my advice and live for a long, long time. Because the maddest thing a man can do is this life is to let himself die.

Man is unique in that, unlike animals, he knows he is going to die, and unlike animals he can do something about it.

When you know you are dying, self-deceptions fly from your bedside like embers off a bonfire.

Change the emphasis, turn your attention around. If you become concerned with death, your life comes to be revealed to you for the first time, because the moment you become at ease with death you have gained a life that cannot die. The moment you have known death, you have known that life which is eternal.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

A species has to become pretty intellectually advanced in order to grasp the concept of death in the abstract, and to dream up the idea of immortality. Long before that (in evolutionary terms) all species with brains have the survival instinct in some form. So, I am just saying that there are many existent proofs of species that have one, but not the other.

I don't want to die. Damn death. Long live life.

Life is stronger than death.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.

He hath awakened from the dream of life.

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

How does a man know when he's taking the last steps of his life?

Better to suffer than to die.

The first thing I think of when I wake up is how close I am to death. But then it gets better during the day.

For many sportsmen, coming face to face with irrefutable evidence of their mortality is the moment they dread above all others.

A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

But,' he thinks, 'it's possible to die before you die.

Though I can’t help feeling a sudden death cheats you of something. Death is an experience of life. You only get one death. I would like to be aware it was happening, even if that did mean enduring pain and fear.

I had it all wrong," he says. "Before I found you, I thought the only way to hold on was to find something to live for. It isn't. To hold on, you have to find something you're willing to die for.