Top 500 Isabel Allende Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “True friendship resists time, distance and silence.”

— Isabel Allende

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2. “We only have what we give.”

— Isabel Allende

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3. “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

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5. “Write what should not be forgotten.”

— Isabel Allende

6. “We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward. In times of tragedy, of war, of necessity, people do amazing things. The human capacity for survival and renewal is awesome.”

— Isabel Allende

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7. “Writing is a calling, not a choice.”

— Isabel Allende

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8. “We all have an unsuspected reserve of strength inside that emerges when life puts us to the test.”

— Isabel Allende

9. “Show up, show up, show up, and after a while the muse shows up, too.”

— Isabel Allende

10. “There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.”

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

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12. “Those who seek the truth run the risk of finding it.”

— Isabel Allende

13. “I think I was a feminist before the word was invented.”

— Isabel Allende

14. “We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.”

— Isabel Allende

15. “For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women in positions of power, and we need to nurture the feminine energy in men.”

— Isabel Allende

Featured in: Real Quotes

16. “A man does what he can; a woman does what a man cannot.”

— Isabel Allende

17. “Peace requires everyone to be in the circle – wholeness, inclusion.”

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

19. “The hardest thing of love is to let go.”

— Isabel Allende

20. “You can’t find someone who doesn’t want to be found.”

— Isabel Allende

21. “Roots are not in landscape or a country, or a people, they are inside you.”

— Isabel Allende

Featured in: Country Quotes

22. “I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.”

— Isabel Allende

23. “Pain is unavoidable, but suffering is optional.”

— Isabel Allende

24. “La verdadera amistad resiste el tiempo, la distancia y el silencio.”

— Isabel Allende

25. “Writing is like making love. Don’t worry about the orgasm, just concentrate on the process.”

— Isabel Allende

26. “Life is very mysterious and there are many things we don’t know. And there are elements of magic realism in every culture, everywhere. It’s just accepting that we don’t know everything and everything is possible.”

— Isabel Allende

27. “What is truer than truth? Answer: the story.”

— Isabel Allende

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28. “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.”

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

30. “Empowering women means trusting them.”

— Isabel Allende

31. “Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.”

— Isabel Allende

32. “The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.”

— Isabel Allende

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33. “I don’t want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.”

— Isabel Allende

34. “Youth is not a period in life but a state of mind.”

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

36. “Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.”

— Isabel Allende

37. “Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony – the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.”

— Isabel Allende

38. “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.”

— Isabel Allende

39. “You are my angel and my damnation; in your presence I reach divine ecstasy and in your absence I descent to hell.”

— Isabel Allende

40. “In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today.”

— Isabel Allende

41. “You only have what you give. It’s by spending yourself that you become rich.”

— Isabel Allende

42. “Everyone in his place and a place for everyone.”

— Isabel Allende

43. “When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.”

— Isabel Allende

44. “The pain of losing my child was a cleansing experience. I had to throw overboard all excess baggage and keep only what is essential.”

— Isabel Allende

45. “Words are not that important when you recognize intentions.”

— Isabel Allende

46. “A novel is achieved with hard work, the short story with inspiration.”

— Isabel Allende

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47. “I’m not above anybody. I’m, I’m not better than anybody. I am made of the same material that everybody else is and if somebody can be a saint, so can I and if somebody can be a torturer, so can I.”

— Isabel Allende

48. “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.”

— Isabel Allende

49. “We’ve lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.”

— Isabel Allende

50. “All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them.”

— Isabel Allende

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