30 Quotes by Margaret Laurence

Too bad to deprive them, but if a person doesn't look after herself in this world, no one else is likely to.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

The dead don’t bear a grudge nor seek a blessing. The dead don’t rest uneasy. Only the living.

Will we ever reach a point when it is no longer necessary to say Them and Us? I believe we must reach that point, or perish.

Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

I can’t change what’s happened to me in my life, or make what’s not occurred take place. But I can’t say I like it, or accept it, or believe it’s for the best. I don’t and never shall, not even if I’m damned for it.

Bless me or not, Lord, just as You please, for I’ll not beg.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry.