Misery and desolation quotes 1984

“We are the dead.

Our only true life is in the future”

“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.”

“The hallway smelt of boiled cabbage

and old rag mats.”

“It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity,

but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness.”