Isabel Allende - Fear Quotes

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Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Isabel Allende

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Isabel Allende

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

Music is a wind that blows away the years, memories, and fear, that crouching animal I carry inside me.

Isabel Allende

The biggest straitjacket is all the prejudices that we carry around, and all the fears. But what if we just surrender to the fear? There are things greater than fear. The great, wonderful quality of human beings is that we can overcome even absolute terror, and we do.

Isabel Allende

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 is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it. Then there's another cavern that is just as big and terrifying, and you just go in and dwell in it and see what is the worst that can happen.

Isabel Allende