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Dead Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Canada was built on dead beavers.
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no…
- Here and there are worms, evidence of the fertility of the soil, caught by the sun, half dead; flexible and pink, like lips.
- One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope. In…
- Anything that suffers and dies instead of us is Christ; if they didn't kill birds and fish they would have killed us. The animals die…
- The reason they invented coffins, to lock the dead in, preserve them, they put makeup on them; they didn't want them spreading or changing into…
- 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…
- Writing of the narrative kind, and perhaps all writing, is motivated deep down, by a fear or and fascination with mortality - by a desire…
- Now that I am dead, I know everything.
- EXTINCTATHON, Monitored by MaddAddam. Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones. Do you want to play?
- Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said…
- You're dead, Cordelia.' No I'm not. 'Yes you are. You're dead. Lie down.
- Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my…
- We'll choose knowledge no matter what, we'll maim ourselves in the process, we'll stick our hands into the flames for it if necessary. Curiosity is…
More Dead Quotes
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead. — Aristotle
- Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and… — David Attenborough
- Canada was built on dead beavers. — Margaret Atwood
- Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will… — Margaret Atwood
- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still something to… — Sri Aurobindo
- It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the voice on… — Paul Auster
- The dead of midnight is the noon of thought. — Anna Letitia Barbauld
- I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death. — Francis Bacon