Margaret-atwood Quote by Margaret Atwood Download Open image ““Sympathy from strangers can be ruinous.”” — Margaret Atwood ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Margaret-atwood Melancholy Sadness Strangers The-blind-assassin
“...it's the sympathy of strangers that's often the most affecting, the words and gestures of people who have no reason to be kind that… — Rosie Wilde Copy Share Image
“I know you want me to feel some sympathy for them, but that's not who I am. I care only about those I know,… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
“It is, after all, a simple and tragic thing that on occasion our unkindness to others is actually a desperate effort to be kind… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
“...and as a result yet today we are unable to distinguish between sympathy and selfishness.” — M.H. Rakib Copy Share Image
“Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.” — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs company, some kind of consolation. This is the rough comfort of strangers, the sympathy of touch.” — Tor Udall Copy Share Image
“There are times when the kindness of strangers only makes matter worse because one realizes how badly one is in need of kindness and… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.” — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“Strangers don't harm you ,But the people who says they care about you.” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," said Pilar, "for the moment. And the moment is the only time we can be fine in.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
I wanted to forget the past, but it refused to forget me; it waited for sleep, then cornered me. — Margaret Atwood Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share 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… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World,"… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I am not mad because I'm a woman... I'm mad because you're an asshole.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I wonder which is preferable, to walk around all your life swollen up with your own secrets until you burst from the pressure of… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Roz is crying again. What she's mourning is her own good will. She tried so hard, she tried so hard to be kind and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She has never been in the presence, before, of two people who are in love with each other. She feels like a stray child,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“The thing you don't realize, my dear girl, is that I have been forced by the economic realities to start taking publishing very seriously.… — Jack McClelland Copy Share Image
“I do have a life,' says Charis, blinking wet eyes. 'You have a rich inner life,' says Tony firmly. 'More than most.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“She had an idea, but it was the wrong idea. It was hardly even an idea, just a white idea balloon with no writing… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“Already they're the objects of narrow sideways looks, as if they had something to do with it; already they've assumed the cornered, angry air… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He wants to see, he wants to know, only to see and know. I'm aware that it is this mentality, this curiosity, which is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
