Margaret Atwood Quotes

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease.

Whatever we try - to be rich, to be happy - death is unavoidable. It doesn't matter how much money you have; it doesn't matter how much love you have. At the end of the day, it's all heading that way.

SOONER OR LATER ALL MEN MUST DIE. EVERYTHING DIES IN THE END. I CAN BE ROBBED BUT NEVER DENIED, I TOLD MYSELF. WHY WORRY? “I too cannot be cheated,” snapped Fate.

Death is an absolute marvel.

Well, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other.

There's nothing glamorous about being dead.

Birth was the death of him.

Facing my own death brought an instant sense of clarity and purpose.

We all labor against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases.

I don't think of death in a romantic way anymore.

We die only once, and for such a long time.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

When you think about it, the end of the world is a little bit like death: We all know it's going to come eventually, and as we get older, we feel we see the signs more and more distinctly.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a fact of life.

Death is a very important part of life.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

I don't believe in the afterlife, so I do think when somebody passes, it's worthy of note.

You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I mean, whatever kills you kills you, and your death is authentic no matter how you die.

No one can outrun death. It will catch up to all of us eventually.

Death is a companion for all of us, whether we acknowledge it or not, whether we're aware of it or not, and it's not necessarily a terrible thing.

The idea of forever is kind of ridiculous, which is unfortunate because it's kind of a nice thing to say, you know. I think it softens the blow of mortality and having to say goodbye to everything you know and everyone you love and all that kind of thing.

I'm not personally obsessed with death. At a certain age, the light that you live in is inhabited by the shades - it 'tis.