Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The two moments are much alike: birth and death are made of the same fabric. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
There is no death, daughter. People die only when we forget them,' my mother explained shortly before she left me. 'If you… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“And I've gained spirituality. I'm aware that before, death was is the neighborhood. Now, it's next door, or in my house. I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
In terrible moments, in moments of revolution, of war or repression, of illness or death, people react with incredible strength. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Heroism is a badly remunerated occupation, and often it leads to an early end, which is why it appeals to fanatics or… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“They were dressed in black, silent, and dry-eyed, as befits the norms of sadness in a country accustomed to the dignity of… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“We’re not old because we are seventy. We start to grow old as soon as we are born, we change every day,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“but had always felt she was a visitor. She felt disconnected and different everywhere else too, but far from being a problem… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Sadness and boredom were more bearable than the effort of living a normal life. Perhaps the idea of death began to hover… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Absolute silence greeted the mystery of death, and for a time impossible to measure they waited, motionless, while Lynn's spirit rose from… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“La Lowell wanted nothing; she lived for the day, unfettered, free, fearless; she wasn't afraid of poverty, loneliness, or infirmity. She accepted… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“My death..I mean..will it be quick,and with dignity? How will i know when the end is coming?" "When you vomit blood,sir," Tao… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
My grandfather was dying, and told the family he had decided to die. ... At that moment I wanted so badly to… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“Are you afraid?” asked Alma. “No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“I am happier when I love than when I am loved. I adore my husband, my son, and my grandchildren, my mother, my dog,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Having a point to start is important. You know that when you decide to write something it's like a commitment. It's like falling in… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“The writer and the dreamer have so much in common: They can't control the plot, they are always part of the story or the… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
People think that they will sit down and produce the great American novel in one sitting. It doesn't work that way. This is a… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Catholics form a majority in Chile, although there are more and more Evangelicals and Pentacostals who irritate everyone because they have a direct understanding… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but I know… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
In 2011, I announced that I was going to retire, and my agent panicked. So she says: 'No, no, no. You have to write… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I have lived with passion and in a hurry, trying to accomplish too many things. I never had time to think about my beliefs… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
I'm surrounded by the scene of aging. I myself am in my 70s and not getting any younger. Although I'm very healthy, and I… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
“Intimacy needs time to mature—a shared history, tears shed, obstacles overcome, photographs in an album. It’s a slow-growing plant.” — Isabel Allende Copy Share
The idea of the book ["The Japanese Lover"] came in a conversation that I had with a friend walking in the streets of New… — Isabel Allende Copy Share
