Famous Clarice Lispector Quotes

  • Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad. – Clarice Lispector

    Dying is something else. Dying is different to good and bad.– Clarice Lispector

  • I’ is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms. – Clarice Lispector

    I’ is merely one of the world’s instantaneous spasms.– Clarice Lispector

  • The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence. – Clarice Lispector

    The world’s continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.– Clarice Lispector

  • 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

    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

  • Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most? – Clarice Lispector

    Could it be that the person who sees most, feels and suffers most?– Clarice Lispector

  • When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. – Clarice Lispector

    When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths.– Clarice Lispector

  • She felt the phrase -œdemand her rights- had lain inside her forever, waiting. – Clarice Lispector

    She felt the phrase -œdemand her rights- had lain inside her forever, waiting.– Clarice Lispector

  • I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden. – Clarice Lispector

    I carry out sun rituals on the slopes of high mountains. But I am also taboo for myself, untouchable because forbidden.– Clarice Lispector

  • It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable. – Clarice Lispector

    It is instead just the grace of a common person turning suddenly real because he is common and human and recoignizable.– Clarice Lispector

  • Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion. – Clarice Lispector

    Love is now, is always. All that is missing is the coup de grâce- which is called passion.– Clarice Lispector