Margaret Atwood Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Margaret Atwood quotes, Margaret Atwood sayings, and Margaret Atwood proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness. Margaret Atwood
The Eskimos had 52 names for snow because it is important to them; there ought to be as many for love. Margaret Atwood
Stupidity is the same as evil if you judge by the results. Margaret Atwood
There's blood, a taste I remember. It tastes of orange Popsicle, penny gumballs, red licorice, gnawed hair, dirty ice. 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 whatever's been thrown away and sunk broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fish bodies bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. Margaret Atwood
Although he doesn't know it yet, she isn't his real life. But he is hers. This is painful. Margaret Atwood
Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid immediate alliteration and assonance in favor of echoes placed later in the poems. Margaret Atwood
Snowman wakes before dawn. Margaret Atwood
I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more. Margaret Atwood
How could I be sleeping with this peculiar man... Surely only true love could justify my lack of taste. Margaret Atwood
Inside the peach there's a stone. Margaret Atwood
War is what happens when language fails. Margaret Atwood
When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that. Margaret Atwood
I try to remember if the past was exactly like this. I'm not sure, now. I know it contained these things, but somehow the mix is different. Margaret Atwood
A movie about the past is not the same as the past. Margaret Atwood
And the end of one journey is the beginning of another. Margaret Atwood
Longed for him. Got him. Shit. Margaret Atwood
Fear has a smell, as love does. Margaret Atwood
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 is happening to me is my own fault. I have done something wrong, something so huge I can’t even see it, something that’s drowning me. I am inadequate and stupid, without worth. I might as well be dead. Margaret Atwood
Messy love is better than none, I guess. I am no authority on sane living. Margaret Atwood
There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain.... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment. Margaret Atwood
Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. Margaret Atwood
happiness is a garden wall with glass there's no way in or out. In Paradise, there are no stories because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. Margaret Atwood
Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. Margaret Atwood
She found herself crying with relief and gratitude. It was as if a large, benevolent hand had reached down and picked her up, and was holding her safe. Margaret Atwood
If the national mental illness of the United States is megalomania, that of Canada is paranoid schizophrenia. Margaret Atwood
Better never means better for everyone... It always means worse, for some. Margaret Atwood
It was like being in an elevator cut loose at the top. Falling, falling, and not knowing when you will hit. Margaret Atwood
Humanity is so adaptable, my mother would say. Truly amazing, what people can get used to as long as there are a few compensations. Margaret Atwood