"I think that we all carry the divine within us"
About this Quote
The real charge sits in “carry.” Divinity here isn’t a spotlight you stand under, it’s weight you move through the world with. That verb makes the idea portable and democratic: the sacred is not reserved for saints, institutions, or genius; it’s smuggled inside ordinary people, including the ones we’re trained to write off. Coming from an actress who has spent a career being looked at, cast, judged, mythologized, the subtext reads as a pushback against reduction. You can’t flatten someone into their face, their role, their scandals, their “type,” if you grant them an inner spark you don’t fully control.
Contextually, Adjani comes out of a French cultural ecosystem that loves its secular posture and still can’t quit metaphysics. “Divine” can mean God, but it can also mean dignity, conscience, imagination, the stubborn core that survives exploitation. It’s a spiritual vocabulary used for a humanist end: a reminder that even in an industry built on surfaces, something untouchable remains.
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Adjani, Isabelle. (2026, January 15). I think that we all carry the divine within us. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-we-all-carry-the-divine-within-us-151005/
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Adjani, Isabelle. "I think that we all carry the divine within us." FixQuotes. January 15, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-we-all-carry-the-divine-within-us-151005/.
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"I think that we all carry the divine within us." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-we-all-carry-the-divine-within-us-151005/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.







