Isabel Allende Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende Famous Quotes & Sayings
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She did not believe that the world was a vale of tears but rather a joke that God had played and that it was idiotic to take it seriously.
What can we do with this happiness that appears for no obvious reason, the joy that needs no cause to exist?
Color prejudice is so strong that if a woman has yellow hair, even if she has the face of an iguana, men turn to look at her in the street.
This is to assuage our conscience, darling" she would explain to Blanca. "But it doesn't help the poor. They don't need charity; they need justice.
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.
All husbands are boring... No woman with ounce of sense gets married to be entertained, she marries to be maintained.
Nostalgia is my vice. Nostalgia is a melancholy, and slightly saccharine, sentiment, like tenderness
I was so drained I felt as if I were staring through a telescope at the light of a star dead for a million years.
A fixation is very stubborn: it burrows into the brain and breaks the heart. There are many fixations, but love is the worst.
In her experience, light skin and money made almost anything easier. She wanted her grandchildren to come into the world with an advantage.
Feminism has never been sexy, but let me assure you that it never stopped me from flirting, and I have seldom suffered from lack of men.
The connection that I have with my readers makes me very happy, and gives meaning to the strange profession of writing
He had only to touch me to turn my tears into sighs and my anger to desire. How accomodating love is; it forgives everything.
Write with honesty and don't worry about the feelings of others, because no matter what you say, they'll hate you anyway.
I have written about Chile extensively, and therefore I have read many books on the subject, mostly for research.
It is a wonderful truth that things we want most in life-a sense of purpose, happiness and hope-are most easily attained by giving them to others.
That was the beginning of the revolution. Many years have gone by and blood keeps running, soaking the soil of Haiti, but I am not there to weep.
A man who cooks is very sexy. A woman who cooks is not that sexy. Because it's associated in our mind to the domestic cliche of the woman.
He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.
You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.
If what you want is the effect of painting, then paint, Aurora. If what you want is truth, learn to use your camera, he would say again and again
There are a lot of good people in the world but they keep quiet about it, it's bad ones that make noise a lot if noise and they get noticed.
For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.
Far away from my country I would be like those trees they chop down at Christmastime, those poor rootless pines that last a little while and then die.
I feel that my life and therefore my writing accept the possibility of all the mystery. Everything we don't know; everything that can possibly happen.
I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!
It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at all pessimistic about this.
My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish.
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.
They could not understand the advantage of living contrary to their inclinations in this world in order to enjoy a hypothetical well-being in another.
Our demons lose their power when we pull them out of the depths where they hide and look them in the face in broad daylight.
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.
In my private circle I am a mother, grandmother, wife, friend, daughter ... the success means nothing to my small tribe.
My desk is like a 'U,' so I have my computer and lots of dictionaries because I write in Spanish and I live in English.
At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to
My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses.
You would give your life for your little baby. It's not the same when you are in a sexual relationship unless you feel that you are loved as you love.