Clarice Lispector Quotes

I really want Americans, and all of us, to be less afraid of death, and know that it's a passage, but that - don't go to the funeral before the day of the funeral.

We have a lot of fear around death, and I thought maybe I can help somebody... I want people to be less scared.

Death is something that I am still trying to figure out a healthy relationship with.

I hope I am not too repetitive. However, coming to terms with death is part of the general human situation.

I think that nothing teaches you more about life than death and dying.

But when my mother died, I found that I did not believe that she was gone.

My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real.

I've learned to accept death better than most people.

No one goes straight to happiness after a breakup.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.

We do have trouble dealing with death, but it's the one thing that is guaranteed we are all going to have to do, and we are going to have to face it many times before we die ourselves.

Death belongs to the dying and those who love them.

Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

Not to be weird, but I still have an ongoing relationship with my mom, even though she passed away, and I've been surprised at how much I've been able to convey to her. Now I sound like a total weirdo, but that's true.

Grief is a terrible, painful place. You can't grind away on grief in a solid way and say, 'I'm going to work on this until it's over' because it will be with you for the rest of your life, whatever you do. So, you deal with it and move on.

As a parent, it's my responsibility to equip my child to do this - to grieve when grief is necessary and to realize that life is still profoundly beautiful and worth living despite the fact that we inevitably lose one another and that life ends, and we don't know what happens after death.

Accepting death is a massive problem for everybody.

I don't believe in an afterlife but I still fully expect to see my brother again.

I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.

Dealing with death is there forever, really, you know, because we all have to face it.

Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

I am left alone in the wide world. My own dear family I have buried: one in Rangoon, and two in Amherst. What remains for me but to hold myself in readiness to follow the dear departed to that blessed world, 'Where my best friends, my kindred dwell, where God, my Saviour, reigns.'

I'm more of a realist when it comes to life, and I'd much rather my mother be in a spiritual place in Heaven than in a bed, sick, fighting for her life.