George Orwell Quotes

Maybe that's my lot in life as an actor, to be the guy who gets crapped on everywhere he goes. Oh God.

If one truly has lost hope, one would not be on hand to say so.

I think by now I have made it fairly clear that I am not very happy with the word hope. I don't believe in people just hoping.

Tain't no use in you cryin' . . . But folks is meant to cry 'bout somethin' or other. Better leave things de way dey is. Youse young yet. No tellin' whut mout happen befo' you die.

You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead

Sooner or later, many idealists transform themselves into disheartened realists who mistakenly believe that giving up is the same thing as being realistic.

Let whatever is going to happen to me happen. I'm expecting the worst for myself and I'm resigned to it.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

I think people in Europe are generally pessimistic about the future. They have low expectations; they're not working hard to change things. When you're a slacker with a pessimistic view of the future, you're likely to meet those expectations.

I don't have high expectations anymore. Maybe they've just been beaten out of me.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.

Cynicism is the easiest of all reactions, right? But it's also so disappointing and self-defeating.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

I don't believe in happy endings.

Life is a jest; and all things show it., I thought so once; but now I know it.

I'd like to say things are bound to get better, but I don't really believe it.

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

I've been shortchanged and overlooked my whole life. And if you boo-hoo about everything, that's all you're going to do your whole life.

I'm a hard-luck kind of guy. Usually, things that I hope for don't go my way, so I'm very used to that. In fact, I expect it.

I just don't get my hopes up. I don't expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I'm one of life's pessimists. I'm ready for everything to go wrong at any moment.

I firmly believe the world will sort itself out in the end. Believe it with me. At least none of us will be around to be proven wrong.