Margaret Atwood Quotes

I eat out alone a lot.

You should be comfortable eating by yourself or in public.

I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.

It's like the code of living by yourself. People who are single know what I'm talking about. You eat standing up, reading the paper. Or you say to yourself, this isn't even cutting it, I'm taking a TV dinner and I'm getting in bed here.

Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

It occured to me that eating is the only form of professionalism most people ever attain.

I really try to do and eat the same thing every day when I'm home and in my routine.

I just keep to myself and live in the country and visit the cities.

Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge.

There is something so horrifying and so sad when people are living alone. That is why the old and lonely come to us.

People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

Dinner alone is one of life's pleasures. Certainly cooking for oneself reveals man at his weirdest. People lie when you ask them what they eat when they are alone. A salad, they tell you. But when you persist, they confess to peanut butter and bacon sandwiches deep fried and eaten with hot sauce, or spaghetti with butter and grape jam.

The loner may be respected, but he is always resented by his colleagues, for he seems to be passing a critical judgment on them, when he may be simply making a limiting statement about himself.

When I eat alone I feel like a seminarian being punished. I tried it for one week and I was not comfortable. Then I searched through Sacred Scripture for something saying I had to eat alone. I found nothing, so I gave it up and it's much better now.

It can be challenge enough to have to eat with myself.

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

Life is very long, when you're lonely.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman