Margaret Atwood Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind. They wander here and there, slowly, dim lights flickering in the marshes at night, looking for us. But they're not nearly fast enough, not for us, we're way ahead of them, they'll never catch up. That's why we can go so fast: our souls don't weigh us down.

  Margaret Atwood

  Night, Men, Light

• Walking was not fast enough, so we ran. Running was not fast enough, so we galloped. Galloping was not fast enough, so we sailed. Sailing was not fast enough, so we rolled merrily along on long metal tracks. Long metal tracks were not fast enough, so we drove. Driving was not fast enough, so we flew. Flying isn't fast enough for us. We want to get there faster. Get where? Wherever we are not. But a human soul can only go as fast as a man can walk, they used to say. In that case, where are all the souls? Left behind.

  Margaret Atwood

  Running, Men, Long

  Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Tent”, p.89, Anchor

• Although from you I far must roam, do not be broken hearted. We two, who in the souls are one, are never truly parted.

  Margaret Atwood

  Two, Broken, Soul

  Margaret Atwood (2011). “Alias Grace: A Novel”, p.25, Anchor

• Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you say, 'I'll be dead,' you've said the word I, and so you're still alive inside the sentence. And that's how people got the idea of the immortality of the soul - it was a consequence of grammar.

  Margaret Atwood

  Ideas, People, Soul

• and each of his voices left his body in a different colored soul and floated up towards the sun still singing.

  Margaret Atwood

  Voice, Soul, Singing

  Margaret Atwood (2012). “Lady Oracle”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• We all know that a book is not really a person. It isn’t a human being. But if you are a lover of books as books – as objects, that is – and ignore the human element in them – that is, their voices – you will be committing an error of the soul, because you will be an idolator, or else a fetishist.

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Errors, Voice

• Nature full strength is more than we can take, Adam One used to say. It's a potent hallucinogen, a soporific, for the untrained Soul. We're no longer at home in it. We need to dilute it. We can't drink it straight. And God is the same. Too much God and you overdose. God needs to be filtered.

  Margaret Atwood

  Home, Soul, Needs

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.326, Anchor

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