Clarice Lispector Quotes

There's a moment for everyone when you fall into your own shadow and the fact is that it's your shadow and you're forced to live in it. And this is nothing to celebrate or not celebrate. It simply is.

I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

Basically, we are a whole world of people desperately trying to figure out what is the dark side of our natures and how much can we explore without becoming something else.

In the middle of the journey of our life I came to myself within a dark wood where the straight way was lost.

When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you.

I think it's good to explore it. I don't feel bad about that... I mean, I think everyone has a sense of - has a dark side, has a - carries some sort of pain with them. And I find it fun to crack it open and go there.

You can't escape from yourself, can you?

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

You are at the same time arrogant and self-loathing. You are a puzzle. But the ancient truth remains: as the light grows dimmer, things begin to become harder to see. I came to love you in time, but I feared the dark side as well. I still do. You have tremendous potential, potential for joy or hate, light or dark, life or death. But in the end, you choose. What a gift, what a joy to witness.

I found that I could not climb my way up to God in a blaze of doing and performing. Rather, I had to descend into the depths of myself and find God there in the darkness of troubled waters.

I'm not good," he said, piercing me with eyes that absorbed all light but reflected none, "but I was worse.

To every man who struggles with his own soul in mystery, a book that is a book flowers once, and seeds, and is gone.

The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.

But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

I have a dark side; it's been pretty well documented. It wouldn't be bad to show that in some light in my work...It's something I no longer fear doing and am actually excited about doing.

The dark night of the soul comes just before revelation.

You know, you struggle and cry and moan and thrash around and beat your head against the wall... and then you realize that you're just yourself, and you come to terms with yourself struggling. There are some serious, serious things to deal with in terms of the immensity of the suffering that we humans create for ourselves and for the world around us.

It's not easy to be Light when you've been Dark. It's almost too much to ask anyone. -Macon Ravenwood

Because of my age and what I do for a living and the amount of time that I've spent away from my family and loved ones, I'm starting to relate more to the late-period Kerouac stuff in the way that I once related to the fun and excitement of the early material. There's a darkness inside of me that I'm only now starting to come to grips with and accept. And it's starting to scare me.

Were it possible for us to wait for ourselves to come into the room, not many of us would find our hearts breaking into flower as we heard the door handle turn.