Isabel Allende Quotes - Page 3

The longer I live, the more uninformed I feel. Only the young have an explanation for everything.

You have the health you deserve.

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

I need to remember to overcome.

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

Photographs deceive time, freezing it on a piece of cardboard where the soul is silent.

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.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.

Nothing's as dangerous as power with impunity.

Humanity has this need to hear stories because they connect us with other people, they teach us about our own feelings. We feel less lonely when we see other people going through the same things, even if they're fictional characters.

Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul.

Most people feel younger than their age, but the culture values youth, success, beauty, productivity. There is no space in this culture for older people.

I have travelled all over the world and one thing that amazes me is that I can communicate with people. My story may be different but emotionally we are all the same.

At my age, people prefer to stay in a relationship that is not working. I do not understand that. I think it takes a lot of courage to separate. But it takes more energy to stay in something that is not working.

I never said I wanted a 'happy' life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don't even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.

When a man's earning his living doing things he doesn't like, he feels like a slave; when he's doing what he loves, he feels like a prince.

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

How can one not speak about war, poverty, and inequality when people who suffer from these afflictions don't have a voice to speak?

I don't want an uneventful and safe life, I prefer an adventurous one.

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

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.

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

When you make an omelet, as when you make love, affection counts for more than technique.

As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.

I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.