George Orwell quotes about mortality

Life, if the grave really ends it, is monstrous and dreadful.

It is all or nothing. Either life on earth is a preparation for something greater and more lasting, or it is meaningless, dark, and dreadful.

Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey.

All Englishmen are virtuous when they are dead.

There is no armour against fate.

It's easy enough to die if the things you care about are going to survive.

Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea.

Roughly speaking it was the sensation of being at the centre of an explosion.

I thought what a good thing it was to be alive in a world where silver poplars grow.

Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death.

If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.

In the face of pain there are no heroes.

As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me.

It is simply an affirmation of naked power; contained in it, quite consciously and intentionally, is the vision of a boot crashing down on a face.

A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses.