"...every human being is doomed to die,..." - Quote by George Orwell
...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures.
More by George Orwell
“Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes.”
“A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?”
“[A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical.”
More on Death
“Property is theft. Nobody "owns" anything. When you die, it all stays here.”
“We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!”
“Death tugs at my ear and says, 'Live. I am coming.”
More on Failure
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure.”
“A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business.”
“The reason most people fail instead of succeed is they trade what they want most for what they want at the moment.”