“Truly amazing, what people can get used to, as long as there are a few compensations.”
More from Margaret Atwood on Life
“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.”
“Experiences were what you got when you couldn’t get what you wanted.”
“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“Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.”
Mitch Albom
18 quotes“Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
16 quotes“It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it.”
Henry Miller
15 quotes“Surely every one realizes, at some point along the way, that he is capable of living a far better life than the one he h...”
Lord Byron
14 quotes“Admire exult despise laugh weep - for here There is such matter for all feelings: - Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smi...”
Joseph Campbell
14 quotes“Life has no meaning. Each of us has meaning and we bring it to life. It is a waste to be asking the question when you ar...”
Virginia Woolf
14 quotes“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
Cormac McCarthy
14 quotes“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Sarah Dessen
13 quotes“All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.”
Paulo Coelho
13 quotes“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
13 quotes“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your...”
Søren Kierkegaard
13 quotes“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.”