Darkness Quotes by Margaret Atwood

“I don’t even close my eyes. Out there or inside my head, it’s an equal darkness. Or light.”

— Margaret Atwood

“But reality has too much darkness in it. Too many crows”

— Margaret Atwood

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes.

— Margaret Atwood

“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to…

— Margaret Atwood

The darkness is really out there. It's not something that's in my head, just. It's in my work because it's in the…

— Margaret Atwood

All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with…

— Margaret Atwood

Was this a betrayal, or was it an act of courage? Perhaps both. Neither one involves forethought: such things take place in…

— Margaret Atwood

“The past is a great darkness, and filled with echos. Voices may reach us from it; but what they say to us…

— Margaret Atwood

But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion. She renders herself…

— Margaret Atwood

I think of bad news as a huge bird, with the wings of a crow and the face of my Grade Four…

— Margaret Atwood

Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east,…

— Margaret Atwood

Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide going out, revealing…

— Margaret Atwood

Why can't I believe? she asked the darkness. Behind her eyelids she saw an animal. It was golden colour, with gentle green…

— Margaret Atwood

“What she read was a series of short connected lyrics, “Isis in Darkness.” The Egyptian Queen of Heaven and Earth was wandering…

— Margaret Atwood

“Had she believed all that? Old Pilar's folklore? No, not really; or not exactly. Most likely Pilar hadn't quite believed it either,…

— Margaret Atwood

“Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east,…

— Margaret Atwood

They are hypocrites, they think the Church is a cage to keep God in, so he will stay locked up there and…

— Margaret Atwood

“We can see through all your disguises: the paths of day, the paths of darkness, whichever paths you take - we're right…

— Margaret Atwood

When I am lonely for boys it’s their bodies I miss. I study their hands lifting the cigarettes in the darkness of…

— Margaret Atwood

To live in prison is to live without mirrors. To live without mirrors is to live without the self. She is living…

— Margaret Atwood

As all historians know, the past is a great darkness, and filled with echoes. Voices may reach us from it; but what…

— Margaret Atwood

“Pilar hadn’t quite believed it either, but it was a reassuring story: that the dead were not entirely dead but were alive…

— Margaret Atwood