George Orwell Quotes About Emotions

Quotes about: Emotions

• A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp.

  George Orwell

  Flames, People, Desire

  George Orwell (1961). “1984”

• The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action.

  George Orwell

  Religious, Spring, War

  George Orwell, Keith Gessen (2009). “All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act.

  George Orwell

  Party, Blow, Hatred

  George Orwell (2003). “1984”, Plume Books

• Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows.

  George Orwell

  Pain, Hatred, Sorrow

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.131, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense over sensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting.

  George Orwell

  Safe, Emotion, Life Is

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