Clarice Lispector Quotes

some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight.

Survival in the conventional sense of the term means to continue to live, but also to live after death.

I don't intend to die.

In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

I'm very comfortable with the nature of life and death, and that we come to an end. What's most difficult to imagine is that those dreams and early yearnings and desires of childhood and adolescence will also disappear. But who knows? Maybe you become part of the eternal whatever.

Because our choices are largely based on survival. But if life is eternal, life is not a question.

The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

'Hamlet' is one of the most dangerous things ever set down on paper. All the big, unknowable questions like what it is to be a human being; the difference between sanity and insanity; the meaning of life and death; what's real and not real. All these subjects can literally drive you mad.

Life and death have been lacking in my life.

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

I don't think we're any more preoccupied by life and death or heaven and hell than anyone else, but it's fun to write about the inevitable - you're alive, and you're going to die.

There's only two things. There's life, and there's death.

A man is not completely born until he is dead.

Tell me the truth about death. I don't know what it is. We have them, then they are gone but they stay in our minds. Their stories are part of us as long as we live and as long as we tell them or write them down.

We're all immortal until we die.

I actually don't think that there is a connection between the survival instinct and a hunger for immortality.

Death is part of who we are. It guides us. It shapes us. It drives us to madness. Can you still be human if you have no mortal end

Death is alive, they whispered. Death lives inside life, as bones dance within the body. Yesterday is within today. Yesterday never dies.

So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing.

It is not dying, but living, that is a preparation for Death.

Through the ages, man's main concern was life after death. Today, for the first time, we find we must ask questions about whether there will be life before death.

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.