Dream Quote by Margaret Atwood

“But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.” quote by Margaret Atwood — Download Open image

“But my dreaming self refuses to be consoled. It continues to wander, aimless, homeless, alone. It cannot be convinced of its safety by any evidence drawn from my waking life.”

Margaret Atwood

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (5 ratings)

Dream Dreams Evidence Homeless Life Refuse Safety Self Waking Waking life Wander

More by Margaret Atwood

“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Mary: Some call this "Eve's curse," but I think that is stupid because the real curse of Eve was having to put up with…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“The birds were singing around me, but I reflected that the very birds were strangers to me, for I did not even know their…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Strange how we decorate pain. These ribbons, for instance, and the small hard teardrops of blood. Who are they for? Do we think the…

margaret atwood

Image

I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me.

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Back at home they drew the curtains and read, with disapproval, with relish, with avidity and glee - even the ones who'd never thought…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“It's my fault. I am forgetting too much.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Simon walks back to the house alone. The night is clear and warm, with a moon, almost full, enclosed in a nimbus of mist;…

Margaret Atwood

Image

“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.”

Margaret Atwood

Image

“Every time the women appear, Snowman is astonished all over again. They're every known colour from the deepest black to whitest white, they're various heights, but each one of them is admirably proportioned. Each is sound of tooth, smooth of skin. No ripples of fat around their waists, no bulges, no dimpled orange-skin cellulite on their thighs. No body hair,…

Margaret Atwood

Explore all 2,073 Margaret Atwood quotes

More Dream quotes

“Once we become sensitive to dreams, we discover that every dynamic in a dream is manifesting itself in some way in our practical lives”

Robert A. Johnson

Image

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever;It's loveliness increase;it will never pass into nothingness;but still will keep a bower quiet for us,and…

John Keats

Image

I understand that it's the music that keeps me alive... That's my lifeblood. And to give that up for, like, the TV, the cars, the houses - that's not the American dream. That's the booby prize, in the end. Those are the booby prizes. And if you fall for them - if, when you achieve them, you believe that this…

Bruce Springsteen

Academically, I was never that interested. I skipped classes. My biggest dream was to have a coffee shop, but I had no idea how…

Daniel Espinosa

Image

“As dreams are the healing songs from the wilderness of our unconscious - So wild animals, wild plants, wild landscapes are the healing dreams from the deep singing mind of the earth.”

Dale Pendell