Margaret Atwood Quotes About Detachment

Quotes about: Detachment

• I don't want to see anyone. I lie in the bedroom with the curtains drawn and nothingness washing over me like a sluggish wave. Whatever is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can't even see it, something that's drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead.

  Margaret Atwood

  Depression, Lying, Stupid

  Margaret Atwood (1988). “Cat's eye”, Doubleday, 1989

• Winning intoxicates you, and numbs you to the sufferings of others.

  Margaret Atwood

  Winning, Numbness, Suffering Of Others

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “The Robber Bride”, p.256, Anchor

• Anaesthesia, that's one technique: if it hurts, invent a different pain.

  Margaret Atwood

  Hurt, Pain, Numbness

  Margaret Atwood (1987). “The edible woman ; Surfacing ; Lady oracle”, Treasure Press

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