843 Quotes by Isabel Allende

But I don't want more things than I need, either.

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

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.

At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

Who can define reality? Isn't everything subjective? If you & I witness the same event, we will recall it and recount it differently. ... Memory is conditioned by emotion, we remember better, and more fully, things that move us, such as the joy of a birth, the pleasure of a night of love, the pain of a loved one's death, the trauma of a wound. When we call up the past, we choose intense moments--good or bad--and omit the enormous gray area of daily life.

He was not oppressed by a crowd because in the midst of all the hullabaloo he always found a quiet place for his soul.

Щастието не е бляскаво и шумно като удоволствието или радостта. То е тихо, кротко и нежно, вътрешно състояние на задоволство, което започва, когато обикнеш себе си.

Write what should not be forgotten.

I have seen these persons speak unthinkingly, not realizing that to speak is also to be. Word and gesture are man's thought. We should not speak without reason.