Quotes from 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four)

Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else.

For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?

Until they became conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.

If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.