George Orwell Quotes

Art will not solve your problems. It will not enable you to live merrily.

I think the 20s are a vastly overrated decade. We promise kids that once they get out of school, life will begin and their dreams will come true. But then comes the struggle.

This is my one beef with Hollywood: It's great for movie sales, but they've created this fiction for us that, when you have a hard thing in your life, it's going to get fixed, and then your life will be awesome! Forever!

You know, I wanted to get married, and so I - but I, you know, I realize no matter what you want, it's kind of a fantasy.

I see kids and young adults walking the streets of L.A. with this enormous sense of entitlement, who seem to think that if they are basically good people and pay their bills, then the world will be good back to them. And I think life isn't always like that.

Most people imagine that resolving particular problems will make them happy. If only one had more money, or love, or success, then life would feel manageable. It can be devastating to realize the falseness of such tempered optimism.

I realized that, when you're 18, your world is wide open. But as each year passes, one more nail goes into the coffin, killing you dreams and aspirations. And by the time you reach 25, you've been beaten down and become a realist. And my advice is you can't let these things get you down.

I was young for my age. Not as naïve as they expected. I don't know why I seem to bring that out in people.

It is a pity we can't escape from life when we are young.

I think loads of women have this idea that their life is going to start at some point, once they've busted all these problems of being a woman, once we're thin and we're pretty and we've got all of our clothes and stuff, that's when our life will begin. And you meet people at 48 who are still thinking that, and 58.

Life don't owe you nothing.

If you can't solve it, it's not a problem - it's reality.

False hope is worse than despair.

When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve.

I was studying Tibetan Buddhism when I was quite young, again influenced by Kerouac.

Let us acknowledge it wiser, if not more sagacious to follow out one's day-dream to its natural consummation, although if the vision has been worth the having, it is certain never to be consummated otherwise than by a failure.

To be enthusiastic about doing much with human nature is a foolish business indeed; and, throwing himself into his work as he was doing, and expecting so much from it, would not the tide ebb as strongly as it was flowing? It is a rash game this setting our hearts on any future beyond what we have our own selves control over. Things do not walk as we settle with ourselves they ought to walk, and to hope is almost the correlative of to be disappointed.

Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart.

I do not expect old heads on young shoulders.

There is nothing like early promiscuous sex for dispelling life's bright mysterious expectations.

Idealism has devolved into madness.

The ability to solve problems or to create products that are valued within one or more cultural settings.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Dreaming is very pleasant as long as you are not forced to put your dreams into practice.

It is easy to become the dupe of a deferred purpose, of the promise the future can never keep.