Margaret Atwood Quotes

Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

Endings are scary and foreign. They split you up emotionally and put you in a place where you don't know what's going to happen next. But with every end of the world, there is a new world that follows.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.

The sense of endings as well as beginnings in the air is now so obvious in so many dimensions of our experience that a critical mass has been reached.

Saying farewell is also a bold and powerful beginning.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

When you begin to realize that your past does not necessarily dictate the outcome of your future, then you can release the hurt. It is impossible to inhale new air until you exhale the old.

A painful time in our life is what I call a healing crisis. We are letting go of something old and opening to something new.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn.

One door closes and another one opens.

Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Sometimes you just need to go through a door.

The feeling is less like an ending than just another starting point.

Do not fear. Look beyond what's dying to what's being born.

He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.

Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

Everything is going to change.

Along my journey / through this transitory world, / new year's housecleaning.