Margaret Atwood Quotes

We don't have control over many things. We're always grasping for it, but in reality, we don't have a lot of control.

I think people feel like there are all these things in our lives that we don't really have control over.

Risk is trying to control something you are powerless over.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

There's nothing worse in life than to sit there and be the victim of a process that's outside your control.

It's weird to have no control over something that you're involved in.

There are so many things that could happen and will happen that are out of my control.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

How can the life of such a man be in the palm of some fools hand?

He prays because he knows he doesn't control it. He's at the mercy of it.

Anyway, it doesn't matter how much, how often, or how closely you keep an eye on things because you can't control it. Sometimes things and people just go. Just like that.

It's an illusion, control," Naomi said. "You ought to understand that by now, young Claire. We are never in control of our destinies, even the strongest of us. All we can hope to do is not be too badly damaged by events.

The world is so unpredictable. Things happen suddenly, unexpectedly. We want to feel we are in control of our own existence. In some ways we are, in some ways we're not. We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence.

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

It's a lot like life. I think 99 percent of what goes on in life, we have very little control over.

Of all men's miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing.

At first I was a bit indignant about it, and then I realised, 'No, that's what people want, so that's what is given.' But it's not in your control. It's just what happens to you, and that's what's frightening.

I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.

The nature of life is that we do not control it.

Some things you can't control.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

We think we can control life by controlling our immediate circumstances. But we can't!

I've lost a lot of control in my life.

You realize there are things you can't control. You can't control a lot of the stuff that happens in your life.

It’s all about control. Control is illusory. No matter what university you go to, no matter what degree you hold, if your goal is to become master of your own destiny, you have more to learn. Parkinson’s is a perfect metaphor for lack of control. Every unwanted movement in my hand or arm, every twitch that I cannot anticipate or arrest, is a reminder that even in the domain of my own being, I am not calling the shots. I tried to exert control by drinking myself to a place of indifference, which just exacerbated the sense of miserable hopelessness.