Margaret Atwood Quotes

I shall not wholly die, and a great part of me will escape the grave.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

The grave Is but the threshold of eternity.

Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so far as from the grave.

Ten out of ten people die. You start thinking about that and it really makes you start to ask the big questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going when I die? What happens when we step out of here? What's out there?

If we don't know life, how can we know death?

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

I'm not really obsessed with death.

I think a lot about death more than life, because we're going towards death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.

One is born, one lives, one dies. What death is, I don't know.

As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'

I shall not altogether die.

There may be no single thing that can teach us more about life than death.

No thanks," said Digory, "I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven.

Oh how wrong we were to think immortality meant never dying

Now when I die, I shall only be dead.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Death, the most dreaded of evils, is therefore of no concern to us; for while we exist death is not present, and when death is present we no longer exist.

I'd never really thought past the whole dying-for-the-sake-of-the-world part of things. When you're alive, you don't dwell on how you're going to spend your time once you're dead. You just figure you're gone, and the rest will pretty much take care of itself.

Our lives are but our marches to the grave.

In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass.