“Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.”
More from Margaret Atwood on Life
“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
“But people will do anything rather than admit that their lives have no meaning.”
“I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”
“A place with no handholds,no landmarks,no past at all:That would have been too much like dying”
“Life is warped. I'm just in sync.”
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.”
“Home, I think. But it's nowhere I can go back to.”
“Surviving Is the only warWe can afford”
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.”
“She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.”
Others on Life
Jonathan Safran Foer
22 quotes“One hundred years of joy can be erased in one second”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“We create our fate every day ... most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior.”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“The great art of life is sensation to feel that we exist even in pain.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“People were always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“No need to hurry. No need to sparkle. No need to be anybody but oneself.”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“I don't believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive...”
Viktor Frankl
13 quotes“Challenging the meaning of life is the truest expression of the state of being human.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All those clean, fresh starts had made me forget what it was like, until now, to be messy and honest and out of control....”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Life can only be understood backwards but it must be lived forwards.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone a...”