Clarice Lispector Quotes

Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Clarice Lispector

  1. Home
    2. ›
  2. Clarice Lispector Quotes

Clarice Lispector Famous Quotes & Sayings

Discover top inspirational quotes from Clarice Lispector on Wise Famous Quotes.

Clarice Lispector quotes: Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart. Suffering for a being deepens the heart within the heart.
Clarice Lispector quotes: She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer. She kept going: why put it off? Yes, why put it off? she asked herself. And her question was solid, demanding a serious answer.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The word is my fourth dimension. The word is my fourth dimension.
Clarice Lispector quotes: but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction. but the crime is more important than the punishment. I enliven all of me in my happy instinct for destruction.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is. I understand a hen, perfectly. I mean, the intimate life of a hen, I know how it is.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The greatness of every human being. The greatness of every human being.
Clarice Lispector quotes: For one has the right to shout.So, I am shouting. For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I am only true when I'm alone. I am only true when I'm alone.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me. Once in a while, groundless melancholy would darken my face, a dull and incomprehensible nostalgia for times never experienced would invade me.
Clarice Lispector quotes: But I've never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl. But I've never known what to do with people and the things I like, sometimes they weigh me down, ever since I was a girl.
Clarice Lispector quotes: But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you. But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer? Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?
Clarice Lispector quotes: I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms. I' is merely one of the world's instantaneous spasms.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life. Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are. Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Facts and particulars annoy me. Facts and particulars annoy me.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself? Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?
Clarice Lispector quotes: - How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand. - How does it feel to have a daughter?
- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon. Before her birth was she an idea? Before her birth was she dead? And after her birth she would die? What a thin slice of watermelon.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human? Who hasn't asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?
Clarice Lispector quotes: I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers. I hear the mad song of a little bird and crush butterflies between my fingers.
Clarice Lispector quotes: As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument. As for music, where does it go? The only concrete thing in music is the instrument.
Clarice Lispector quotes: She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting. She felt the phrase "demand her rights" had lain inside her forever, waiting.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage
Clarice Lispector quotes: There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences. There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog. I am not an intellectual, I write with my body. And what I write is a moist fog.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most? Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?
Clarice Lispector quotes: Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward. Persistence is our effort, giving up is the reward.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I want shade, I want shade and anonymity.from "The Departure I want shade, I want shade and anonymity.
from "The Departure
Clarice Lispector quotes: If you have kissed the wall, you can accept anything. If you have kissed the wall, you can accept anything.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks. The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her. Everything struck her at times as too precious, impossible to touch. And, at times, what people used as air to breathe, was weight and death for her.
Clarice Lispector quotes: And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand. And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy. Holding someone's hand was always my idea of joy.
Clarice Lispector quotes: It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep. It was darker, all she could see of him was a shadow. He was fading more and more, slipping through her hands, dead at the bottom of sleep.
Clarice Lispector quotes: And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me. And I want to be held down. I don't know what to do with the horrifying freedom that can destroy me.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting Things were somehow so good that they were in danger of becoming very bad because what is fully mature is very close to rotting
Clarice Lispector quotes: Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words. Suddenly I've become so restless that I'm capable of saying "That is enough" and ending what I'm writing you, which is based mostly on blind words.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it. Every idea that occurred to him, because he became familiar with it in seconds, came with the fear of having stolen it.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul. The steel suddenly touched her heart. Ah, jealousy, it was jealousy, the cold hand mashing her slowly, squeezing her, diminishing her soul.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it. Above all, she went on thinking, she understands life because she is not sufficiently intelligent not to understand it.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season Don't forget that for now it's strawberry season
Clarice Lispector quotes: Truth is always an inexplicable inner contact. Truth is unrecognizable. So it doesn't exist? No, For men it doesn't exist. Truth is always an inexplicable inner contact. Truth is unrecognizable. So it doesn't exist? No, For men it doesn't exist.
Clarice Lispector quotes: What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance. What an effort I make to be myself. I struggle against a tide in a boat with just enough room for my two feet in a perilous and fragile balance.
Clarice Lispector quotes: For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes. For at the hour of death you became a celebrated film star, it is a moment of glory for everyone, when the choral music scales the top notes.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I always give names to things I always give names to things
Clarice Lispector quotes: I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them. I write as if to save somebody's life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live the dead because we live in them.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction? I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?
Clarice Lispector quotes: Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style Life really just barely escapes me though the certainty comes to me that life is other and has a hidden style
Clarice Lispector quotes: My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it. My truest life is unrecognizable, extremely interior and there is not a single word that defines it.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Meanwhile, the clouds are white and the sky is blue. Why is there so much God? At the expense of men. Meanwhile, the clouds are white and the sky is blue. Why is there so much God? At the expense of men.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given. Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart. Sometimes writing a single line is enough to save your own heart.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires. Obsessed with the desire to be happy I lost my life. I moved with the tension of a bow and arrow in an unreality of desires.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Ah, hand holding mine, if I hadn't needed so much of myself to shape my life, I would already have had life! Ah, hand holding mine, if I hadn't needed so much of myself to shape my life, I would already have had life!
Clarice Lispector quotes: In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness. In the world there exists no aesthetic plane, not even the aesthetic plane of goodness.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand. I'm so frightened that I shall be able to accept the notion that I have lost myself only if I imagine that someone is holding my hand.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Meanwhile the clouds are white & the sky is all blue. Why so much God? Why not a little for men. Meanwhile the clouds are white & the sky is all blue. Why so much God? Why not a little for men.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I, who called love my hope for love. I, who called love my hope for love.
Clarice Lispector quotes: As soon as you discover the truth it's already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is it? Reply: it's not. As soon as you discover the truth it's already gone: the moment passed. I ask: what is it? Reply: it's not.
Clarice Lispector quotes: What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human. What I want is to live of that initial and primordial something that was what made some things reach the point of aspiring to be human.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I work only with lost and founds. I work only with lost and founds.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light. I write very simple and very naked. That's why it wounds. I'm a grey and blue landscape. I rise in a dry fountain and in the cold light.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad. Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself. The terrible duty is that of going all the way to the end. And without relying on anyone. To live oneself.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach. I cannot stand repetition: routine divides me from potential novelties within my reach.
Clarice Lispector quotes: But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes. But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us. I don't know what my secret is. Tell me about yours, teach me about the secret of each one of us.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I must not forget, I thought, that I have been happy, that I am being happier than one can be. But I forgot, I've always forgotten. I must not forget, I thought, that I have been happy, that I am being happier than one can be. But I forgot, I've always forgotten.
Clarice Lispector quotes: You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body. You don't understand music: you hear it. So hear me with your whole body.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented. I just know that I don't want cheating. I refuse. I deepened myself but I don't believe in myself because my thought is invented.
Clarice Lispector quotes: So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing. So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.
Clarice Lispector quotes: No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel. No it is not easy to write. It is as hard as breaking rocks. Sparks and splinters fly like shattered steel.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I know that what I am feeling is serious and has the power to destroy me. I know that what I am feeling is serious and has the power to destroy me.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The docks went to the heart of her life. The docks went to the heart of her life.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what. Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Perhaps love is to give one's own solitude to others? For it is the very last thing we have to offer.from "The Gift Perhaps love is to give one's own solitude to others? For it is the very last thing we have to offer.

from "The Gift
Clarice Lispector quotes: It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it. It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.
Clarice Lispector quotes: How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5) How do I explain that my greatest fear is precisely in relation to ... to being?" (5)
Clarice Lispector quotes: I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad. I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm and I am sad.
Clarice Lispector quotes: It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable. It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die. Where does music go when it's not playing? - she asked herself. And disarmed she would answer: May they make a harp out of my nerves when I die.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort
Clarice Lispector quotes: To think is an act. To feel is a fact. To think is an act. To feel is a fact.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror. Its form doesn't matter: no form manages to circumscribe and alter it. Mirror is light. A tiny piece of mirror is always the whole mirror.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots. Brazil is where I have to be, where I have my roots.
Clarice Lispector quotes: When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Saying meaningless words is my great freedom. Saying meaningless words is my great freedom.
Clarice Lispector quotes: The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much. The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.
Clarice Lispector quotes: What I have to say is superfluous for anyone who often feels the pangs of hunger What I have to say is superfluous for anyone who often feels the pangs of hunger
Clarice Lispector quotes: Living leaves me atremble. Living leaves me atremble.
Clarice Lispector quotes: God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted. God belongs to those who manage to get him. God appears when you're distracted.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal. Inside her it was as if death didn't exist, as if love could weld her, as if eternity were renewal.
Clarice Lispector quotes: Passed (it strikes me that this God was extremely merciful to her: He gave her what He took away). Passed (it strikes me that this God was extremely merciful to her: He gave her what He took away).
Clarice Lispector quotes: Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing. Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.
Clarice Lispector quotes: If the girl knew that my own joy also comes from my deepest sadness and that sadness was a failed joy. If the girl knew that my own joy also comes from my deepest sadness and that sadness was a failed joy.
Clarice Lispector quotes: I am well aware that each day is a day stolen from death. I am not I am well aware that each day is a day stolen from death. I am not

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Authors | Topics | About | Contact | Policy | Sitemap

Copyright © 2025 Wise Famous Quotes. All Rights Reserved.