"Never, for any reason on earth, could..." - Quote by George Orwell
Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop.
More by George Orwell
“The mistake you make, don't you see,is in thinking one can live in a corrupt society without being corrupt oneself. After all, what do you achieve by refusing to make money? You're trying to behave as though one could stand right outside our economic system. But one can't. One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing. One can't put things right in a hole-and-corner way, if you take my meaning.”
“The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men”
“Rich people are poor people with money.”
More on Pain
“Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled.”
“Every need brings what's needed.Pain bears its cure like a child.Having nothing produces provisions.Ask a difficult question,And the marvelous answer appears.”
“We want to avoid pain and have pleasure, so if our early attempts to achieve our dreams fail, we want to avoid the pain of future failure and rejection, so we stop trying and write it off with a broadbrush, "I'm just not driven enough, not well educated enough, not attractive enough, not smart enough."”