42 phrases by Clarice Lispector that are magnificent – 42 phrases

Ignore, overcome, forget. But never think about giving up on yourself because of someone.

Clarice Lispector

Before judging my life or my character, put on my shoes and walk the path I walked, live my sorrows, my doubts and my joys. Walk through the years I’ve walked, stumble where I’ve stumbled and pick yourself up just like I did.

Clarice Lispector

I’m not always a flower. Sometimes thorn defines me so much better. But I only prick the fingers of those who think they have me in their hands.

Clarice Lispector

I am eternally passionate about words, music and whole people. I don’t care your last name, where you were born, how much you carry in your pocket. Empty people are boring and give me sleep.

Clarice Lispector

Freedom is little. What I desire still has no name.

Clarice Lispector

She discovered that she needed him, and that made her desperate… She wanted to continue loving him but not needing him so violently.

Clarice Lispector

Cherish those who love you, they deserve your respect. As for the rest, well… no one ever needed leftovers to be happy.

Clarice Lispector

Fear has always guided me to what I want. And because I want, I fear. Many times it was fear that took me by the hand and led me. Fear leads me to danger. And everything I love is risky.”

Clarice Lispector

Only one thing in my favor I can say: I never hurt on purpose. And it also hurts me when I realize I hurt.

Clarice Lispector

Entertaining others, one of the most exciting ways to exist.

Clarice Lispector

They didn’t ask for me, but they missed me. In the plot of my absence, they invented false canvas.

Clarice Lispector

If the sun and moon know when to leave our sights, why don’t some “nice” people follow the cycle of nature?

Clarice Lispector

The most important thing is change, movement, dynamism, energy. Only what is dead does not change!

Clarice Lispector

It’s as if life says this: and there simply isn’t this. Just the two points waiting.

Clarice Lispector

Only then would she dress herself, spend the rest of the day dutifully playing the role of being.

Clarice Lispector

And if you think I am weird, respect too. Even I was forced to respect myself.

Clarice Lispector

Hug me, that in the hug more than in words, people like each other.

Clarice Lispector

I don’t want to have the terrible limitation of someone who lives only on what makes sense. I don’t: what I want is an invented truth.

Clarice Lispector

Even cutting out the defects can be dangerous. You never know what defect holds our entire building together.

Clarice Lispector

Thankfully, there is always another day. And other dreams. And other laughs. And other people. And other things.

Clarice Lispector

Let’s be like the spring that is reborn every day more beautiful… Exactly because they are never the same flowers.

Clarice Lispector

I love the beautiful, but the sincere… Ah! This one fascinates me.

Clarice Lispector

There are times in life when we miss someone so much that what we want most is to take that person out of our dreams and hug them.

Clarice Lispector

May my solitude serve as company, may I have the courage to face myself.

Clarice Lispector

I still don’t know how to control my hate but I already know that my hate is an unfulfilled love, my hate is a life not yet lived.

Clarice Lispector

Happiness appears to those who cry. For those who get hurt. For those who seek and always try.

Clarice Lispector

I don’t have time for anything else, being happy consumes me a lot.

Clarice Lispector

It is difficult, being awake, to dream freely in my remote mysteries.

Clarice Lispector

I am a beating heart in the world.

Clarice Lispector

Make me know how to stay with nothing and still feel like I’m full of everything.

Clarice Lispector

She believed in angel and because he believed they existed.

Clarice Lispector

I’ve spent my life trying to right the wrongs I’ve made in my eagerness to get it right.

Clarice Lispector

What a joyful fear, of waiting for you.

Clarice Lispector

Getting lost is also a way.

Clarice Lispector

Listen: I let you be, let me be then.

Clarice Lispector

In the worst moments remember: who is capable of intense suffering, can also be capable of intense joy.

Clarice Lispector

Every silence has a name and a reason.

Clarice Lispector

Too much praise is like putting too much water on the flower. She rots.

Clarice Lispector

Being happy is a very big responsibility. Few people have the courage.

Clarice Lispector

Since I am, the way is to be.

Clarice Lispector

I am as you see me. I can be light as a breeze or strong as a gale, it depends on when and how you see me pass.

Clarice Lispector

I was not born to live up to expectations, but to be happy.

Clarice Lispector