"His lifetime was less than a fraction of……" — Isabel Allende
"His lifetime was less than a fraction of a second in infinity. Or maybe he did not even exist; maybe human beings, the planets, everything in Creation were a dream...an illusion. He smiled with humility when he remembered..."
—
Isabel Allende
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
212 Quotes by Isabel Allende
Isabel Allende has 212 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
I was a very bad journalist. Awful. I would just invent everything. If I did an interview, I had a…
-
I can promise you that women working together - linked, informed and educated - can bring peace and prosperity to…
-
If this world is going to be a better place for our grandchildren and great-grandchildren, it will be women who…
-
What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.
-
For real change, we need feminine energy in the management of the world. We need a critical number of women…
-
I'm aware of the mystery around us, so I write about coincidences, premonitions, emotions, dreams, the power of nature, magic.
-
I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No…
-
Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books:…
-
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice,…
-
I tend to see the similarities in people and not the differences.
-
We want a world where life is preserved, and the quality of life is enriched for everybody, not only for…
-
Women have always been courageous... They are always fearless when protecting their children and in the last century they have…
See all 212 quotes by Isabel Allende »
More Beings Quotes
This quote is filed under Beings Quotes,
one of 3,882 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
-
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
— Paul Auster
-
The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
— Billie Joe Armstrong
-
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
— Karen Armstrong
-
But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
-
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
-
It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
-
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
— David Attenborough
-
I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
— Mikhail Bakunin
-
Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
-
What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
-
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
— Douglas Adams
See all 3,882 Beings Quotes »