Isabel Allende quotes - page 2

And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone. (Isabel Allende)

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

Isabel Allende

... when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars.

Isabel Allende

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Isabel Allende

Writing is a constant exercise in longing.

Isabel Allende

He realized... that the loudest are the least sincere, that arrogance is a quality of the ignorant, and that flatterers tend to be vicious.

Isabel Allende

Do you truly believe that life is fair, Senor de la Vega? -No, maestro, but I plan to do everything in my power to make it so.

Isabel Allende

I need to remember to overcome.

Isabel Allende

... a fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.

Isabel Allende

Happiness is pure kitsch; we come into the world to suffer and learn.

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Reading is like looking through several windows which open to an infinite landscape.... For me life without reading would be like being in prison, it would be as if my spirit were in a straightjacket; life would be a very dark and narrow place. (Isabel Allende)

My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.

Isabel Allende

His calls for justice were lost at the mercy of the wind and human indifference.

Isabel Allende

The names of persons and living creatures demand respect, because when we speak to them we touch their heart and become a part of thier life force.

Isabel Allende

There is room in the human heart for all the divinities.

Isabel Allende

She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

Isabel Allende

Remember that all the others are more afraid than you.

Isabel Allende

I imagined the structure of the novel like a braid. My job was to blend three strands evenly and neatly. Each piece of the braid represented one of the stories. The characters were very different but they had something in common: they were emotionally wounded by events of their past.

Isabel Allende

The theme of displacement is very natural for me. It always comes up in my books because I have been a foreigner all my life and I don't feel I belong anywhere. I'm an immigrant.

Isabel Allende

Thank God – because what are you going to write about if you don't struggle as a child? I don't think that you become creative because you have struggled, no, but creative people are fuelled by anger and passion, and haunted by demons and memories.

Isabel Allende

Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a threat to a world that is badly out of balance, in favor of men. (Isabel Allende)

A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.

Isabel Allende

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul.

Isabel Allende

The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.

Isabel Allende

Write what should not be forgotten.

Isabel Allende

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Isabel Allende

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Occupation: Chilean Writer
Born: August 2, 1942
Quotes count: 136
Wikipedia: Isabel Allende

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