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

“You might even provide a Heaven for them. We need You for that. Hell we can make for ourselves.”

“Our heaven is their hell, said God. I like a balanced universe.”

“I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary.”

“Where do the words go”

“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.”

“By now you must have guessed: I come from another planet. But I will never say to you, Take me to your leaders. Even I - unused to your ways though I am - would never make that mistake. We ourselves have such beings among us, made of cogs, pieces of paper, small disks of shiny metal, scraps of coloured cloth. I do not need to encounter more of them.”

“Immortality like this is about as useful as sunscreen on a submarine.”

“No one can say that death found in me a willing comrade, or that I went easily.”

“Being dead's a drug', he says, 'you'll get hooked on it.”

“Until now I had been able only to grieve, not mourn. Grief was passive. Grief happened. Mourning, the act of dealing with grief, required attention.”

“We all love conflagrations. When the sky changes color, it is a dead man's passing.”

“If you truly live, you will never truly die!”