"He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort was needed… It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always one’s own body."
— 1984, George Orwell
(Source: quote-book, via mirroir)
"I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself."
— D.H. Lawrence
(Source: likeafieldmouse, via fatalisms)
