1984 Chapter 5 Part 2 Quotes

#1. No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

Edward T. Welch

#2. If you love a person, you should show it in adundance, not reserve it for special occasions like fine china.

Bryan Cohen

#3. In its use of words poetry is just the reverse of science. Very definite thoughts do occur, but not because the words are so chosen as logically to bar out all possibilities save one.

David Daiches

#4. The morning sun on her white hair and pale face made her seem almost translucent. She'd been a beautiful woman in her day, with wide eyes, high cheekbones, and a long, thin nose. Sometimes you could still catch sight of that beauty, and it was like looking through enchanted glass.

Sarah Addison Allen

#5. Sex, without society as its landscape, has never been of much interest to fiction.

Elizabeth Hardwick

#6. You can betray someone with a word or an action. You can betray them with silence or inaction too. And in betraying that one person, you can betray a whole world.

Julie Bertagna

#7. Man feels and ponders death as though it were the end, when in fact death is merely the continuation of life. It is another life. You may not believe in the existence of the soul, yet you must acknowledge that your body will live on as green grass, as a cloud. For you are, after all, water and dust.

Janusz Korczak

#8. The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation.

Demosthenes