Margaret Atwood Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• A word after a word after a word is power.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Reading

  "Spelling". Poem by Margaret Atwood, www.poemhunter.com.

• We still think of a powerful man as a born leader and a powerful woman as an anomaly.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Powerful

• Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart. Maybe it's much the same.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Heart, Mind

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.329, Anchor

• Farewells can be shattering, but returns are surely worse. Solid flesh can never live up to the bright shadow cast by its absence. Time and distance blur the edges; then suddenly the beloved has arrived, and it's noon with its merciless light, and every spot and pore and wrinkle and bristle stands clear.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Distance, Farewell

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.76, Anchor

• Either I'm alive or I'm dying, she said to Daniel. Please don't feel you can't tell me. Which is it?
  Which does it feel like? said Daniel. He patted her hand. You're not dead yet. You're a lot more alive than many people.
  This isn't good enough for Rennie. She wants something definite, the real truth, one way or the other. Then she will know what she should do next. It's this suspension, hanging in a void, this half-life she can't bear. She can't bear not knowing. She doesn't want to know.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Truth, Real

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Bodily Harm”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

• It's a lifelong failing: she has never been prepared. But how can you have a sense of wonder if you're prepared for everything? Prepared for the sunset. Prepared for the moonrise. Prepared for the ice storm. What a flat existence that would be.

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Sunset, Ice

  Margaret Atwood (2014). “Stone Mattress: Nine Tales”, p.16, Anchor

• An eye for an eye only leads to more blindness.

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

• For drinking Life there are two cups: The No Cup is bitter, the Yes Cup is yummy -- Now, which one would you rather have in your tummy?

  Margaret Atwood

  Life, Drinking, Yummy

  Margaret Atwood (2010). “The Year Of The Flood”, p.97, Hachette UK

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