Isabel Allende Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Isabel Allende quotes, Isabel Allende sayings, and Isabel Allende proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

Writing is a process, a journey into memory and the soul. Isabel Allende
Empowering women means trusting them. Isabel Allende
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you can remember me, I will be with you always. Isabel Allende
Accept the children the way we accept trees with gratitude, because they are a blessing, but do not have expectations or desires. You don't expect trees to change, you love them as they are. Isabel Allende
Write what should not be forgotten. Isabel Allende
Peace requires everyone to be in the circle - wholeness, inclusion. Isabel Allende
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. Isabel Allende
Memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we never get a chance to see the relationship between events; we cannot gauge the consequences of our acts, and we believe in the fiction of past, present, and future, but it may also be true that everything happens simultaneously. Isabel Allende
A novel is like a window, open to an infinite landscape. Isabel Allende
Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Isabel Allende
Real soup is to the body what peace is to the soul. Isabel Allende
There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain. Isabel Allende
You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not. Isabel Allende
We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time. Isabel Allende
Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest. Isabel Allende
A memoir is an invitation into another person's privacy. Isabel Allende
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. Isabel Allende
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
True friendship resists time, distance, and silence. Isabel Allende
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks. Isabel Allende
I have been a foreigner all my life, first as a daughter of diplomats, then as a political refugee and now as an immigrant in the U.S. I have had to leave everything behind and start anew several times, and I have lost most of my extended family. Isabel Allende
I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember? Isabel Allende
True friendship resists time, distance and silence. Isabel Allende
Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy and desired her with unjust intensity. Isabel Allende
Nice people with common sense do not make interesting characters. They only make good former spouses. Isabel Allende
Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have a problem with obesity. And yet, we don't enjoy food that much. Isabel Allende
The imagination is a persistent demon; the world would be black and white without it. Isabel Allende