Truth Quote by Margaret Atwood — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“This world is not enough, but it will have to do. You can either hold on or let go.”

“All you have to do, I tell myself, is keep your mouth shut and look stupid. It shouldn't be that hard.”

“I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.”

“A truth should exist,”

“One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.”

“If you really want to stay the same age you are now forever and ever, she'd be thinking, try jumping off the roof: death's a sure-fire method for stopping time.”

“Lots of men think that women should tell the truth, explain their feelings. These men should use their wishes more wisely. (Prepare To Die!, p.27)”

“Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.”

“Death, taxes and childbirth! There's never any convenient time for any of them.”

“Only the winner and coward may survive.”

“Sex is mathematics. Individuality no longer an issue. What does intelligence signify? Define reason. Desire - meaningless. Intellect is not a cure. Justice is dead.”

“I say what other people only think, and when all the rest of the world is in a conspiracy to accept the mask for the true face, mine is the rash hand that tears off the plump pasteboard, and shows the bare bones beneath.”