Quotes by : Clarice Lispector

- How does it feel to have a daughter?- At times it's like holding a warm egg in my hand.

The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.

I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I....

I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and....

Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim....

And woman was mystery in itself, she discovered. There was in all of them a quality of raw material,....

And none of this necessarily has any bearing on the issue of the existence or non-existence of a God.....

A sentence which might bear in mind that our great struggle is that of fear, and that if a man has killed....

Beyond thought I reach a state. I refuse to divide it up into words - and what I cannot and do not want....

I can feel myself holding a child, thought Joanna. Sleep, my child, sleep, I tell you. The child is warm....