Isabel Allende Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

  Isabel Allende

  Writing, Reality, Confusion

• The fear is not real, Dil Bahadur; it is only in your mind, like all other things. Our thoughts form what we believe to be reality.

  Isabel Allende

  Fear, Real, Believe

  Isabel Allende (2014). “Kingdom of the Golden Dragon”, p.6, Harper Collins

• Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment.

  Isabel Allende

  Fear, Reality, Practice

• 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.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Dying, World

  Isabel Allende (2015). “The House of the Spirits: A Novel”, p.322, Simon and Schuster

• She sowed in my mind the idea that reality is not only what we see on the surface; it has a magical dimension as well and, if we so desire, it is legitimate to enhance it and color it to make our journey through life less trying.

  Isabel Allende

  Journey, Reality, Color

  Isabel Allende (2016). “Eva Luna: A Novel”, p.25, Simon and Schuster

• I seek truth and beauty in the transparency of an autumn leaf, in the perfect form of a seashell on the beach, in the curve of a woman's back, in the texture of an ancient tree trunk, but also in the elusive forms of reality.

  Isabel Allende

  Beach, Autumn, Reality

• I began to wonder whether anything truly existed, whether reality wasn't an unformed and gelatinous substance only half-captured by my senses....If that were true, each of us was living in absolute isolation. The thought terrified me. I was consoled by the idea that I could take that gelatin and mold it to create anything I wanted...At times I felt that the universe fabricated from the power of the imagination had stronger and more lasting contours than the blurred realm of the flesh-and-blood creatures around me.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Ideas, Blood

• I try desperately to conquer the transitory nature of my existence, to trap moments before they evenesce, to untangle the confusion of my past. Every instant disappears in a breath and immediately becomes the past; reality is ephemeral and changing, pure longing.

  Isabel Allende

  Past, Reality, Confusion

• She intended to swallow the world and he lived crushed by reality.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, World, Crushed

• Only that, nothing more - a tiny beam of light to show some hidden aspect of reality, to help decipher and understand it and thus to initiate, if possible, a change in the conscience of some readers.

  Isabel Allende

  Reality, Light, Tiny

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