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Top 20 Isobelle Carmody Quotes (2025 Update)

Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.”

1. “Laughter is a powerful weapon for it carries the light. To laugh is to defy the darkness.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

2. “Sometimes success demands a certain refined insanity.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Speak less and say more.”

3. “Speak less and say more.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”

4. “The deepest wounds aren’t the ones we get from other people hurting us. They are the wounds we give ourselves when we hurt other people.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,′ I told him. ‘It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.”

5. “If we know one thing from experience it is that oppression does not crush rebellion, no matter how it tries,′ I told him. ‘It breeds it anew with every tyrannical act.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.”

6. “Strength without compassion is soulless and cruel. Weakness, too, has its place, for it brings understanding.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. ‘I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister’ he said.”

7. “My favourite mentor brother told me that there were three kinds of people: followers, leaders and scouts. Scouts are capeable of leadership, but they could not tolerate the responsibility of it. Disinclined to take orders either, they invariably flouted authority and fomented strife. This is why scouts, he said wryly, were the first to be sent into danger, It was half hoped they would be killed. ‘I fear you are destined to trouble us as a scout, little sister’ he said.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”

8. “Short stories do not say this happened and this happened and this happened. They are a microcosm and a magnification rather than a linear progression.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “There are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I feel I must try to counterbalance them with whatever beauty I can produce. Setting a pretty table in a world of pain might seem callous, given that people are starving and living in dreadful disease and poverty. But in trying to create islands of beauty and peace, I feel I am honoring the dreams of the world.”

9. “There are so many sad and ugly things in the world that I feel I must try to counterbalance them with whatever beauty I can produce. Setting a pretty table in a world of pain might seem callous, given that people are starving and living in dreadful disease and poverty. But in trying to create islands of beauty and peace, I feel I am honoring the dreams of the world.”

— Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Don’t you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.”

10. “Don’t you understand that wanting does not belong here, because that is what wounds, and there is never an end to it.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.”

11. “Only humans think death is evil. But it is nature. Evil exist’s only in life. There is much good and evil alloted to each life.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Maruman does not loll.”

12. “Maruman does not loll.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

13. “Sometimes I am afraid for people like you who have to know things. Your kind will dig and hunt and worry at it until one day you will find what is hidden, waiting for you.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.”

14. “That was what happened to laughter when you caged it. It became unbearably sad. It was worse than crying.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.”

15. “The short story form allows evocation, suggestion, implication. Its potency often lies in what it does not say.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.”

16. “Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.”

17. “If she is afraid of mirrors she is afraid of herself.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully.”

18. “Life has always been a matter of putting one’s feet down carefully.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,’ Rushton said. ‘There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.”

19. “It would be a simple matter if lives were lived by hindsight,’ Rushton said. ‘There is much we would not begin, if we could see how it would end.”

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Isobelle Carmody Quote: “She’s forgetting,′ Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. ‘All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.”

20. “She’s forgetting,′ Ellen said to Jack, plumping herself down on a chair. ‘All of her life is leaking out of her. Soon there will be nothing left.”

— Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody Quote: “True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather... Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm.”

21. “True sorrows do not pass like clouds or inclement weather... Sorrows are absorbed over time, and you reshape yourself around them. How you absorb them makes you what you are for good or ill. I think the only true and right way is to take our sorrows into us bravely and wholly, knowing they will hurt, and accepting that sometimes pain is unavoidable. It is when grief is suppressed or hidden that it does harm.”

— Isobelle Carmody

Isobelle Carmody Quote: “Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.”

22. “Fools blow air out of their mouths as often as their bums, and either way it causes a stink and comes to nothing.”

— Isobelle Carmody

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