Isabel Allende Quotes

Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals w...

I've been so thoroughly incorporated into the California culture that I practice meditation and go t...

I have a hundred-year-old aunt who aspires to sainthood, and whose only wish has been to go into the...

Literary characters, like my grandmother's apparitions, are fragile beings, easily frightened; they ...

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

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below the...

All you will have is the present. Waste no energy crying over yesterday or dreaming of tomorrow. Nos...

I have the idea that we grandmothers are meant to play the part of protective witches; we must watch...

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

The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric.

I learned very quickly that when you emigrate, you lose the crutches that have been your support; yo...

Mediante la fotografía y la palabra escrita intento desesperadamente vencer la condición fugaz de mi...

write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, the...

But why give a man something it's so hard to earn? In that respect women are really thick. They're t...

Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested the...

At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, ...

She was considered timid and morose. Only in the country, her skin tanned by the sun and her belly f...

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers...

You can't find someone who doesn't want to be found.

لقد عرف كيف يموت ، كما عرف كيف يعيش

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...

…she did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and th...

I go, but I always remember you.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Nations should be governed by a council of learned men who must answer to the people for their actio...

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet p...

The Indians’ insistence on clinging to their customs had to be the work of Satan there was no other ...

They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in or...

I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and ...

I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, my grandchildren, my moth...

I was such a sullen, angry, sad kid. I'm sure there are writers who have had happy childhoods, but w...

One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women....

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and...

In the books I have written, I have created in my mind a universe. My kids say I have a village in m...

Writing is a calling, not a choice.

I read on my iPad when I travel. I listen to audiobooks in the car. I read books in my bedroom, wher...

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is somet...

My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.

Writing is like making love. Don't worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and...

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her whi...

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learne...

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

Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it aw...

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, t...

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming u...

Feminism is dated? Yes, for privileged women like my daughter and all of us here today, but not for ...

I'm very optimistic because I think that the real strength of a nation like the United States comes ...

My death..I mean..will it be quick,and with dignity? How will i know when the end is coming?""When y...

Write what should not be forgotten.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and ge...

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almos...

We only have what we give.

Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at ...

Until a few months ago we had a code of honor, and even the worst ruffians behaved with decency. You...

I would like to have been born a man, so I could leave too.

Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in ...

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

Accept the children the way we accept trees—with gratitude, because they are a blessing—but do not h...

Men's memoirs are about answers; women's memoirs are about questions. Most male authors want to look...

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

She regretted nothing she had shared with her lover, nor was she ashamed of the fires that had chang...

There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly befor...

Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of ...

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more las...

People do not belong to others, either. How can the huincas buy and sell people if they do not own t...

Nothing changes; we humans repeat the same sins over and over, eternally.

​Courage is a virtue appreciated in a male but considered a defect in our gender. Bold women are a t...

I strike the ground with the soles of my feet and life rises up my legs, spreads up my skeleton, tak...

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

Of all fragrances, the sweetest is that of virtue.

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

This was a matter of some small group of guerrillas in some distant caves, a primitive, fanatical, a...

الكتابة مثل الشعوذة : لايكفي إخراج أرنب من القبعة ، بل يجب عمل ذلك بأناقة وطريقة ممتعة

I had a serious library at my disposal, because my Popo believed that culture entered by osmosis and...

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, som...

I'd realized that in writing happiness is useless-without suffering there is no story.

I was alone, without a single cent, in an unknown country. If I'd learned anything from last year's ...

I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and ...

We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In t...

He understood then that all his exploits as a reporter, the feats that had won him such recognition ...

In the United States, the fact that you can start again gives a lot of energy and strength and youth...