Life Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“Life is warped. I'm just in sync.”

— Margaret Atwood

“The minimalist life. Pleasure in an egg.”

— Margaret Atwood

Life's not fair; why should I be?

— Margaret Atwood

“Art is long and life is brief and mortality looms.”

— Margaret Atwood

Potential has a shelf life.

— Margaret Atwood

I am not your justification for existence.

— Margaret Atwood

“Orpheus 2 He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed.”

— Margaret Atwood

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

— Margaret Atwood

What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.

— Margaret Atwood

Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living.

— Margaret Atwood

“The small details of life often hide a great significance.”

— Margaret Atwood

“Now that she’s the carrier of life, she is closer to death, and needs special security.”

— Margaret Atwood

He has been trying to sing Love into existence again And he has failed

— Margaret Atwood

“We were a society dying, said Aunt Lydia, of too much choice.”

— Margaret Atwood

“If it’s a story I’m telling, then I have control over the ending. Then there will be an ending, to the story,…

— Margaret Atwood

“She talks with wolves, without knowing what sort of beasts they are: Where have you been all my life? they ask. Where…

— Margaret Atwood

“I think that this is what God must look like: an egg. The life of the moon may not be on the…

— Margaret Atwood

Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, they…

— Margaret Atwood

A suicide is both a rebuke to the living and a puzzle that defies them to solve it. Like a poem, suicide…

— Margaret Atwood

“Luke was in the living room. He put his arms around me. We were both feeling miserable. How were we to know…

— Margaret Atwood

“She's wearing jeans and a T, ordinary-enough clothes, though with her inside them they look like silk. Life is unfair, he thinks,…

— Margaret Atwood

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.

— Margaret Atwood

So this was the rest of his life. It felt like a party to which he'd been invited, but at an address…

— Margaret Atwood

“Apart from all this, I do of course have a real life. I sometimes have trouble believing in it, because it doesn't…

— Margaret Atwood

“I keep on going with this sad and hungry and sordid, this limping and mutilated story, because after all I want you…

— Margaret Atwood

“The stories the children whispered to one another - while they sat weaving their endless carpets, while they could still see -…

— Margaret Atwood

This has been her problem all her life: picturing other people's responses. She's too good at it. She can picture the response…

— Margaret Atwood

“She expected too much from me, I felt. She expected me to vindicate her life for her, and the choices she'd made.…

— Margaret Atwood

“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered,…

— Margaret Atwood

The prospect of his future life stretched before him like a sentence; not a prison sentence but a long-winded sentence with a…

— Margaret Atwood

Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert our existence, like…

— Margaret Atwood

“Sometimes she would cry. I was so lonely, she'd say. You have no idea how lonely I was. And I had friends,…

— Margaret Atwood

“UP You wake up filled with dread. There seems no reason for it. Morning light sifts through the window, there is birdsong,…

— Margaret Atwood

“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the…

— Margaret Atwood

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…

— Margaret Atwood

“Why interesting and important? Because women are interesting and important in real life. They are not an afterthought of nature, they are…

— Margaret Atwood

“I would like to believe this is a story I'm telling. I need to believe it. I must believe it. Those who…

— Margaret Atwood

“whose life am I living. Whose life am I failing to live”

— Margaret Atwood

he might die for her, but living for her would be quite different.

— Margaret Atwood

“I am not your justification for existence, I said to her once.”

— Margaret Atwood