Ingrid Betancourt

“I often think about her. One thing she said stayed with me, a dagger in my heart: "You know for me the…

— Ingrid Betancourt

I think there is this sensation of being deprived of something that you are entitled to have.

— Ingrid Betancourt

Sometimes I'm fragile, sometimes too emotional, but I'm putting everything I can on my side to be a happy person.

— Ingrid Betancourt

If you believe what you say, words will become reality.

— Ingrid Betancourt

I think that the security in the cities is a lot better, but I think that outside the cities the peasants have…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“I had not suffered enough to find the rage in my guts I needed to struggle to death for my freedom.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Before I was abducted, I think that happiness was related to success. Nowadays happiness is related, for me, to rest, peace, serenity.

— Ingrid Betancourt

“I already knew that I had the ability to free myself from hatred, and I viewed this as my most significant conquest.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

I was struggling against corruption and the only thing... my only weapon was to put the truth in the medias and of…

— Ingrid Betancourt

If my goal is to change Colombia, which it is because I really think Columbia has to change in many, many ways…

— Ingrid Betancourt

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

— Ingrid Betancourt

For me the very important thing was never to forget that they had no right to have me there, that my duty…

— Ingrid Betancourt

People need space to survive.

— Ingrid Betancourt

“The book in my hands became my trusted companion. What was written there had so much power that it forced me to…

— Ingrid Betancourt

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

— Ingrid Betancourt

“He had to be okay. We had no choice.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Now I realized that life supplies us with everything we need for the journey. Everything I had acquired either actively or passively,…

— Ingrid Betancourt

I realized that I hated politics. I mean that is you know... I realized being in the jungle that what I had…

— Ingrid Betancourt

In this condition of the most devastating humiliation, I still possessed the most precious of liberties, that no-one could take away from…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“If you believe what you say, words become reality.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

Sometimes you hear in the United States that in Columbia there is a war between rich and poor, between people that are…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“He looked at the world from above. Where I saw threatening waves, he saw tranquil water.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

“Beyond my fear I felt the need to defend my identity, to not let them turn me into a thing or a…

— Ingrid Betancourt

“He who could hear my heart knew that I was crying out for help.”

— Ingrid Betancourt

“I was beginning to think that in life there might be some suffering that was worth enduring.”

— Ingrid Betancourt