"To hang on from day to day..." - Quote by George Orwell

“Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.”

“The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth.”

“All human relationships must be purchased with money.”

“I am exclusively occupied with the problem of gravitation and hope with the help of a local mathematician friend [Marcel Grossman] to overcome all the difficulties. One thing is certain, however, that never in life have I been quite so tormented. A great respect for mathematics has been instilled within me, the subtler aspects of which, in my stupidity, I regarded until now as pure luxury.”

“One flesh. Or if you prefer, one ship. The starboard engine has gone. I, the port engine, must chug along somehow till we make harbour. Or rather, till the journey ends.”

“It's not the intensity of the man, but the duration of his intensity that makes the man great.”

“I have spent my life resisting the desire to end it.”

“Any system of government will work when everything is going well. It's the system that functions in the pinches that survive”

“There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.”