“You were the dead; theirs was the future.”

“accept it as a law of nature that the individual is always defeated...the only victory lay in the far future long after you were dead...”

“He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable”

“We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

“He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable. What certainty had he that a single human creature now living was on his side?”

“You will have to get used to living without results and without hope. You will work for a while, you will be caught, you will confess, and then you will die. Those are the only results that you will ever see. There is no possibility that any perceptible change will happen within our own lifetime. We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future.”

“April the 4th, 1984. To the past, or to the future. To an age when thought is free. From the Age of Big Brother, from the Age of the Thought Police, from a dead man - greetings!”