Time Quotes by Isabel Allende

True friendship resists time, distance and silence.

— Isabel Allende

We are too connected. There's noise in our heads all the time.

— Isabel Allende

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.

— Isabel Allende

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

— Isabel Allende

“The calendar is a human invention; time does not exist on the spiritual level.”

— Isabel Allende

My writing comes not from the happy moments, but from struggle and grief.

— Isabel Allende

I never had time to think about my beliefs until my 28-year-old daughter Paula fell ill. She was in a coma for…

— Isabel Allende

“You’re going to have time to get bored, Maya. Take advantage of it to write down the monumental stupidities you’ve committed, see…

— Isabel Allende

Everything that has to do with food is sensuous. In the United States, however, we are eating all the time. We have…

— Isabel Allende

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all…

— Isabel Allende

At my age days dissolve like salt in water; the day's gone and I don't even know what I've done with the…

— Isabel Allende

“At the time I had never lived with a woman, so I could hardly miss something I had not grown accustomed to”

— Isabel Allende

“The nightmares of the past were like dust that had settled along the way: the slightest gust sent them billowing up once…

— Isabel Allende

“At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred…

— Isabel Allende

“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

The last time I was in Chile, I was hypnotized by a friend who is studying to be a curandero, a healer,…

— Isabel Allende

I write until the first draft is finished, and then I feel that I can get out. But, during the time of…

— Isabel Allende

That was a good time in my life, in spite of having the sensation of floating on a cloud, surrounded by both…

— Isabel Allende

I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of…

— Isabel Allende

“Death, with its ancestral weight of terrors, is merely the abandonment of an unserviceable shell at the time the spiritis reintegrated into…

— Isabel Allende

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview,…

— Isabel Allende

At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those…

— Isabel Allende

Every time I asked a question, that magnificent teacher, instead of giving the answer, showed me how to find it. She taught…

— Isabel Allende

“At times I feel as if I had lived all this before and that I have already written these very words, but…

— Isabel Allende

“She asked herself a thousand times why she had hungered so desperately to belong body and soul to Joaquin Andieta when truth…

— Isabel Allende

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a…

— Isabel Allende

“Melesio tweezed his facial hairs, then ran ether-soaked cotton over his face, so his skin was the texture of silk; he took…

— Isabel Allende

“I write, she wrote, that memory is fragile and the space of a single life is brief, passing so quickly that we…

— Isabel Allende

“Sometimes I am assaulted by the memory of a scene from that time on the street, a memory that flares up inside…

— Isabel Allende

I see that in the future, things that we have lost in the past will be recovered. There's a search for those…

— Isabel Allende

“He never spoke of his past, for fear of evoking sympathy and also because he had not yet come to grips with…

— Isabel Allende

“went to her workshop three times a week to paint with Kirsten. She rarely frequented the Lark House dining room, preferring to…

— Isabel Allende

I have a very acute sense of place and time, so all of my stories are rooted in a place and a…

— Isabel Allende

It's going to go away because we all need silence. We all need time to reflect and think. I am not at…

— Isabel Allende

I was a political refugee living in Venezuela. I had a job that was twelve hours a day, no money. It was…

— Isabel Allende

I want to have an epic life. I want to tell my life with big adjectives. I want to forget all the…

— Isabel Allende

For women, the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting…

— Isabel Allende

I remember my childhood as a horrible time. My mother says that nothing so horrible ever happened to me as the things…

— Isabel Allende