A Clergyman's Daughter Quotes

“It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith—as mysterious as faith itself.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“إن المعتقدات تتبدل والأفكار تتغير لكن يبقى قسم عميق داخل الروح لا يتبدل . يتلاشى الإيمان لكن الحاجة إليه تبقى كما كانت من قبل”
― جورج أورويل, A Clergyman's Daughter

“And in every detail of your life, if no ultimate purpose redeemed it, there was a quality of greyness, of desolation, that could never be described, but which you could feel like a physical pang at your heart. Life, if the grave really ends it, is monstrous and dreadful. No use trying to argue it away. Think of life as it really is, think of the details of life; and then think that there is no meaning in it, no purpose, no goal except the grave. Surely only fools or self-deceivers, or those whose lives are exceptionally fortunate, can face that thought without flinching?”
― George Orwell , A Clergyman's Daughter

“Those things don’t really matter. I mean, things like having no money and not having enough to eat. Even when you’re practically starving - it doesn’t change anything inside you. Oh well, it’s beastly while it’s happening, of course; but it doesn’t make any real difference; it’s the things that happen inside you that matter.’
‘Meaning?’ said Mr. Warburton.
‘Oh - things change in your mind. And then the whole world changes, because you look at it differently.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“Women who do not marry wither up - they wither up like aspidistras in back-parlour windows; and the devilish thing is that they don’t even know they’re withering.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“For the rest, she grew used to the life that she was leading - used to the enormous sleepless nights, the cold, the dirt, the boredom, and the horrible communism of the Square. After a day or two she had ceased to feel even a flicker of surprise at her situation. She had come, like everyone about her, to accept this monstrous existence almost as though it were normal. The dazed, witless feeling that she had known on the way to the hopfields had come back upon her more strongly than before. It is the common effect of sleeplessness and still more of exposure. To live continuously in the open air, never going under a roof for more than an hour or two, blurs your perceptions like a strong light glaring in your eyes or a noise drumming in your ears. You act and plan and suffer, and yet all the while it is as though everything were a little out of focus, a little unreal. The world, inner and outer, grows dimmer till it reaches almost the vagueness of a dream.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“It was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“Nothing in the world is quite so irritating as dealing with mutinous children.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“It had driven into her a far deeper understanding than she had had before of the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: "Thou shalt not lose thy job.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing—nothing, nothing, nothing, like the Dadaists.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter: A Thought-Provoking Exploration of Identity and Morality

“was a life that wore you out, used up every ounce of your energy, and kept you profoundly, unquestionably happy. In the literal sense of the word, it stupefied you. The long days in the fields, the coarse food and insufficient sleep, the smell of hops and wood smoke, lulled you into an almost beastlike heaviness. Your wits seemed to thicken, just as your skin did, in the rain and sunshine and perpetual fresh air.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“But of course we must never forget, Mrs. Pither, that there’s a better world coming. This life is only a time of trial—just to strengthen us and teach us to be patient, so that we’ll be ready for Heaven when the time comes.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“The best brothel-scenes in literature have been written, without exception, by pious believers or pious unbelievers.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“Now then, Dorothy! No snivelling, please! It all comes right somehow if you trust in God. Matthew vi. 35. The Lord will provide.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“[..] the great modern commandment - the eleventh commandment which has wiped out all the others: 'Thou shalt not lose thy job.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“The parents sat round watching, and in their crass faces—faces not harsh or evil, only blunted by ignorance and mean virtues—you could see a solemn approval, a solemn pleasure in the spectacle of sin rebuked.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“Și, dacă credința e tot ce ai, cum poate să mai conteze altceva? Cum te mai poate înspăimânta ceva dacă există fie și un singur scop pe lume pe care să îl poți sluji, și pe care, în timp ce îl slujești, îl înțelegi? Întreaga ta viață e iluminată de acest sentiment, că știi ce ai de făcut. În inima ta nu există oboseală, nici îndoieli, nici sentimentul că totul e inutil, nici plictisul baudelairian pândindu-te în clipe când nu ești atent. Fiecare gest al tău are importanță, fiecare clipă e sfântă, iar credința ta le țese într-o textură densă, o pânză a bucuriei fără de sfârșit.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“There are two kinds of avaricious person—the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to MAKE money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dunghill with his teeth.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter: A Thought-Provoking Exploration of Identity and Morality

“کوچولوی عزیز من، تو می تونی فلسفه ای از زندگی را به من نشان دهی که لذت گرایی در آن وجود نداشته باشد؟ قدیسین شپشوی مسیحی تو از بزرگترین لذت گرایان تاریخند. آن ها به دنبال خوشی و لذت ابدی هستند؛ درحالی که ما گناهکاران بیچاره فقط همین چند صباح را خوش می گذرانیم. در نهایت، همه ما به دنبال یک چیز هستیم؛ اما بعضی از مردم به اشکالی نامعقول و بیمارگونه این هدف را دنبال می کنند.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“حیات و هستی بالاخره باید معنایی داشته باشد و هدف و منظوری در آن وجود داشته باشد. جهان نمیتواند زاییده یک اتفاق باشد؛ بنابراین هر چیزی که در زندگی جریان دارد نیز در نهایت باید مقصود و هدفی را دنبال کند. چون وجود داری پس خداوند باید تو را آفریده باشد و چون او تو را که وجودی آگاه هستی، خلق کرده است، پس خود نیز باید آگاه باشد. هرگز از چیزی بی مقدار، چیزی باارزش پدید نمی آید.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman’s Daughter

“says. ‘Heaven was made for the likes of us,’ he says; ‘just for poor working folks like us, that have been sober and godly and kept our Communions regular.’ That’s the best way, ain’t it, Miss Dorothy—poor in this life and rich in the next? Not like some of them rich folks as all their motor-cars and their beautiful houses won’t save from the worm that dieth not and the fire that’s not quenched. Such a beautiful text, that is. Do you think you could say a little prayer with me, Miss Dorothy? I been looking forward all the morning to a little prayer.” Mrs.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“Ziveti pod vedrim nebom, nikada ne provodeci vise od sat ili dva u zatvorenom, otupljuje i zaslepljuje mozak kao sto ti jaka svetlost zaslepi oci. Ponasas se, i planiras i patis, ali i dalje ti je sve nekako daleko, kao da ti je zivot izasao iz fokusa, kao da postaje nerealan. Svet, spoljnji i unutrasnji, kao da polako bledi dok ti ne postane nesto poput vecega sna.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“....so old that no one remembered her as anything but an old woman."

"For they knew nothing, absolutely nothing-nothing, nothing, nothing, like the Dadaists."

"There are two kinds of avaricious person-the bold, grasping type who will ruin you if he can, but who never looks twice at twopence, and the petty miser who has not the enterprise actually to make money, but who will always, as the saying goes, take a farthing from a dung-hill with his teeth."

"It meant more to her to save a sixpence than to earn a pound."

"And given only faith, how can anything else matter? How can anything dismay you if only there is some purpose in the world which you can serve, and which, while serving it, you can understand? Your whole life is illuminated by that sense of purpose. There is no weariness in your heart, no doubts, no feelings of futility, no Baudelairean ennui waiting for unguarded hours. Every act is significant, every moment sanctified, woven by faith as into a pattern, a fabric........."

"....no pseudo-religion of 'progress' with visions of glittering Utopias and ant-heaps of steel and concrete.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“There was never a moment when the power of worship returned to her. Indeed, the whole concept of worship was meaningless to her now; her faith had vanished, utterly and irrevocably.
It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith - as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter

“There’s quite enough evil in the world without going about looking for it.”
― George Orwell, A Clergyman's Daughter