The best Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Writers & Poets

The best Quotes by Margaret Atwood

Margaret Eleanor Atwood (born November 18, 1939) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor.

Live in the present, make the most of it, it's all you've got.

The Handmaid's Tale

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You can't help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.

The Handmaid's Tale

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Pain marks you, but too deep to see. Out of sight, out of mind.

The Handmaid's Tale

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Knowing was a temptation. What you don't know won't tempt you.

The Handmaid's Tale

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When we think of the past it's the beautiful things we pick out. We want to believe it was all like that.

The Handmaid's Tale

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You can only be jealous of someone who has something you think you ought to have yourself.

The Handmaid's Tale

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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.

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Ignoring isn't the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

The Handmaid's Tale

Don't let the bastards grind you down.

The Handmaid's Tale

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

The Handmaid's Tale

But remember that forgiveness too is a power.

The Handmaid's Tale

Forgiveness & Mercy

Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.

The Handmaid's Tale

But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning. No use, that is. No plot.

The Handmaid's Tale

The moment of betrayal is the worst, the moment when you know beyond any doubt that you've been betrayed: that some other human being has wished you that much evil.

The Handmaid's Tale

Ordinary is what you are used to. This may not seem ordinary to you now, but after a time it will. It will become ordinary.

The Handmaid's Tale

What I need is perspective. The illusion of depth, created by a frame, the arrangement of shapes on a flat surface.

The Handmaid's Tale

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print... it gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

The Handmaid's Tale

There is more than one kind of freedom. Freedom to and freedom from. In the days of anarchy, it was freedom to. Now you are being given freedom from. Don't underrate it.

The Handmaid's Tale

It's Paradise, but we can't get out of it. And anything you can't get out of is Hell.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.

The genesis of a poem for me is usually a cluster of words. The only good metaphor I can think of is a scientific one: dipping a thread into a supersaturated solution to induce crystal formation. I don't think I solve problems in my poetry; I think I uncover the problems.

A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

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Never mistake a woman's meekness for weakness.

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Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

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How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.

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I can resist everything except temptation.

Oscar Wilde

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You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us? You think we don’t recall them more clearly than ever in times of great trouble? Your father is alive in you, Harry, and shows himself plainly when you have need of him.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

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Memories Death Grief & Condolence

The jealous are troublesome to others, but a torment to themselves.

William Penn

All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Children & Childhood Birthday Age

None so deaf as those that will not hear. None so blind as those that will not see.

Matthew Henry

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Blindness Ignorance Hearing & Listening Taubheit

It is not the strong or the smart that survive, but the ones who can bring about change.

Celestia Ludenberg in Danganronpa

People find it far easier to forgive others for being wrong than being right.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

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Forgiveness & Mercy

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