Margaret Atwood Quotes

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

As Oscar tells to Chalky, eventually we all run out of road...

There is a remedy for everything but death; who, in spite of our teeth, will take us in his clutches.

Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

One night awaits all, and death's path must be trodden once and for all.

Nothing in life is sure, my son. Except the promise of death.

Nothing can happen more than once, but everything must happen one day; Over hill and dale, wood and stream, my dying voice will blow away. . .

No one here gets out alive.

All true stories end in death.

There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End.

Death comes to us, under many conditions, with all the welcome serenity of sleep.

Death's dark way Must needs be trodden once, however we pause.

Dying can't be all that difficult-up to now everyone has managed to do it.

No matter how expected, death is always the ultimate surprise.

There really is only one ending to any story. Human life ends in death. Until then, it keeps going and gets complicated and there's loss. Everything involves loss; every relationship ends in one way or another.

It seemed incredible to me that day without premonitions or symbols should be the one of my inexorable death .

100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased.

For everyone and everything, there is a time to die. Some do not know it, or would delay it, but its truth cannot be denied. Not when you look into the stars of the ninth gate.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering poured Avails; no altars hath he, nor is soothed By hymns of praise. From him alone of all The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep.

The lot of man - to suffer and to die.

Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries.

If the storytellers told it true, all stories would end in death.