Life Quotes by Clarice Lispector

“because our living matter is greater than we are”

— Clarice Lispector

I write to save someone's life, probably my own

— Clarice Lispector

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

— Clarice Lispector

“I'm no more than a comma in life. I who am a colon. Thou, thou art my exclamation.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Life just is for me, and I don’t understand what I’m saying. And so I adore it. ——————”

— Clarice Lispector

Living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage

— Clarice Lispector

“Long live the dead because we live in them.”

— Clarice Lispector

“Danger is what makes life precious. Death is the constant danger of life.”

— Clarice Lispector

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

— Clarice Lispector

“When living comes to pass, one wonders: but was that it? And the answer is: that is not only it, that is…

— Clarice Lispector

“My old life was necessary to me because it was precisely its error that made me take up imagining a hope that,…

— 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

“Perhaps I now knew that I would never be equal to life myself, but that my life was equal to life. I…

— Clarice Lispector

“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves…

— Clarice Lispector

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

— Clarice Lispector

My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.

— Clarice Lispector

“My life had been as continuous as death. Life is so continuous that we divide it into stages and call one of…

— Clarice Lispector

“She had no idea how to cope with life and she was only vaguely aware of her own inner emptiness. Were she…

— Clarice Lispector

“I find it hard to believe that I shall die. Because I'm bubbling in cold freshness. My life will be very long…

— Clarice Lispector

Whether she won or lost, she would continue to wrestle with life. It would not be with her own life alone but…

— Clarice Lispector

“We shall be inhuman - as humankind's greatest conquest. To be is to be beyond the human. To be a human being…

— Clarice Lispector

“Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying…

— Clarice Lispector

“Give me your anonymous hand, for life is giving me pain and I don't know how to go on talking - reality…

— Clarice Lispector

“I am going to create what happened to me. Only because living isn't tellable. Living isn't livable. I shall have to create…

— Clarice Lispector

“I am finding myself: it's deadly because only death concludes me. But I bear it until the end. I'll tell you a…

— Clarice Lispector

“This is a record of woman’s entire life, written over a woman’s entire life. As such, it seems to be the first…

— Clarice Lispector

“I'm blinder than before. I did see, I really did. I was terrified by the raw truth of a world whose greatest…

— Clarice Lispector

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know…

— Clarice Lispector

“Oh, don't pull your hand away from me, I've promised myself that maybe by the end of this impossible narrative I shall…

— Clarice Lispector

“And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God. What I'm saying…

— Clarice Lispector

“Life was taking its vengeance on me, and that vengeance consisted merely in coming back, nothing more. Every case of madness involves…

— Clarice Lispector

“I'm going to start my exercise in courage, living isn't courage, knowing that you're living, that's courage.”

— Clarice Lispector

I write as if to save somebody’s life. Probably my own. Life is a kind of madness that death makes. Long live…

— 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

“Now I understand what a trial is. Trial: it means that life is trying me. But trial: means that I too am…

— Clarice Lispector

“Life, my love, is a great seduction in which all that exists seduces. That room that was deserted and for that reason…

— Clarice Lispector

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a…

— Clarice Lispector

“What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought the terror of sincerity…

— Clarice Lispector

Reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought. . . . life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and…

— Clarice Lispector

“Because it's too cruel to know that life is just one time and that we have no guarantee outside our faith in…

— Clarice Lispector