Death Quote by Clarice Lispector — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Oh, but to reach silence, what a huge effort of voice. My voice is the way I go seek reality; reality prior to my language exists as an unthinkable thought, but I was and am fatefully impelled to have to know what thought thinks. Reality precedes the voice that seeks it, but like the earth precedes the tree, but like the world precedes the man, but like the sea precedes the view of the sea, life precedes love, bodily matter precedes the body, and one day in its turn language shall have preceded possession of silence. - Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.”

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”

“And now -- now it only remains for me to light a cigarette and go home. Dear God, only now am I remembering that people die. Does that include me?”

“I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.”

“I ask myself: is every story that has ever been written in this world, a story of suffering and affliction?”

“To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die.”

“People living deeply have no fear of death.”

“…but there they lay, sprawled across the field, craved far more by the vultures than by wives.”

“Do not mourn the dead. They know what they are doing.”

“He looked like a man who could survive a couple of flesh wounds, but then so had Achilles and Caesar.”

“It's only water," she said.”