Margaret Atwood Quotes

If I knew my schedule a month ahead, I'd be so bored.

What has passed is already finished with. What I find more interesting is what is still to come.

I love the unknown. I love the discovery of what will be happening and just kind of sitting back and not knowing.

Everyone couldn't be happier and more terrified.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

People have reflected on the quality of time ever since they've been writing. I suppose I have thought about and written about the question of living in the present - but it only lasts for an instant, and then everything becomes the past. The future, you know nothing about, except for some anticipations you have.

What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

I just thought that it was magical having to glide across the ice.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.

Life's supposed to be an adventure, a surprise!

My films are so new and unique that I don't know where I will end up. Fear keeps me alert. And it's also a part of an excitement.

The closest synonym of happiness is excitement, and you can generate it by doing something that you can't completely comprehend. This understanding makes the process rich and exciting.

I remember, being young is a scary, wonderful feeling.

I want to be surprised by life... I think that's more interesting.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

Night can swallow you up, yet none of it touches you. Around any corner, there's a promise of something daring and ideal and things are just getting going. There's something obscenely joyful behind every door, either that or somebody crying with their head in in their hands. A lazy rhythm looms in the dreamy air and the atmosphere pulsates with bygone duels, past-life romance, comrades requesting comrades to aid them in some way. You can't see it, but you know it's there

I find I'm so excited I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it is the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.

I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

I like the not knowing of what the next job is.

As long as a thing is unknown, it belongs to us in a way that well-known things do not. For we have the opportunity to fill the empty, unknown spaces for ourselves, and in them there is room for imagination and for hope.

To me there is something thrilling and exalting in the thought that we are drifting forward into a splendid mystery-into something that no mortal eye hath yet seen, and no intelligence has yet declared.

I was curious what would happen.

I'm hoping to be astonished tomorrow by I don't know what.

Nothing is more creative than death, since it has the whole secret of life. It means that the past must be abandoned, that the unknown cannot be avoided, that 'I' cannot continue, and that nothing can be ultimately fixed. When a man knows this, he lives for the first time in his life. By holding his breath, he loses it. By letting go he finds it.