"A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you."

Society, Divorce

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Society, People, Prisoners, Thoughts, Others

"Your water is in the bottles, and my water is in the bucket, but we are brothers? I am collecting garbage, and you are in the bed, but we are sisters? My fingers are broken, and your hands are so soft, but we are family? Your God is like an angel, and my God is like an evil, but we are equal? My stomach is empty, and your stomach is so big, but we are humans?"

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

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"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

Toni Sorenson, American Author

Society, Rules, Women, Change, Power

"Large families are communities unto their own."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Society, Family, Community, Support, Love

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Society, Isolation, Truth, Life, Wisdom

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

Deyth Banger, American Blogger

Society, Truth, Power, Life, Wisdom

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

Mokokoma Mokhonoana, South African Philosopher

Society, Truth, Values, Wealth

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

Bryant McGill, American Poet

Society, Corporate, Truth, Happiness, Power

"When modern sociologists talk of the necessity of accommodating one's self to the trend of the time, they forget that the trend of the time at its best consists entirely of people who will not accommodate themselves to anything. At its worst it consists of many millions of frightened creatures all accommodating themselves to a trend that is not there. And that is becoming more and more the situation...Every man speaks of public opinion, and means by public opinion, public opinion minus his opinion."

Gilbert K. Chesterton, English Writer

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

Humor, Silence, Stupidity, Observation, Judgment

"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."

Positivity, Optimism, Perspective, Decline, Hope

"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

Memory, Silence, Pain, Endurance

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

Nature, Night, Dawn, Darkness

"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."

Emotion, Theft, Mystery, Possession, Guilt

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

Creativity, Control, Writing, Freedom

"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."

Imagination, Presence, Creation, Patience

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"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

"Large families are communities unto their own."

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

Explore more quotes by Margaret Atwood

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

"Things that are falling apart encourage me: whatever else, I'm in better shape than they are."

"I shouldn't have taken a vow of silence, I told myself. What did I want? Nothing much. Just a memorial. But what is a memorial, when you come right down to it, but a commemoration of wounds endured? Endured, and resented. Without memory, there can be no revenge."

"Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you look east, at sunset, you can see night rising, not falling; darkness lifting into the sky, up from the horizon..."

"I was taking something away from her, although she didn't know it. I was filching. Never mind that it was something she apparently didn't want or had no use for, had rejected even; still, it was hers, and if I took it away, this mysterious "it" I couldn't quite define."

"Is there no end to his diguises of benevolence?"

"If your not annoying somebody, you're not alive."

"There is never only one, of anyone."

"For me the experience of writing is really an experience of losing control. I think it's very much like dreaming or like surfing. You go out there and wait for a wave, and when it comes it takes you somewhere and you don't know where it'll go."

"Better not to invent her in her absence. Better to wait until she's actually here. Then he can make her up as she goes along."