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Quotes About Solitude

Who was she asking? God? She didn't think about God, God didn't think about her. God belongs to those who can manage to get hem.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am alone in the world and I don't believe in anyone, everyone lies, sometimes even when making love, I don't think one being speaks to another, the truth only comes to me when I'm alone.
~ Clarice Lispector
In my interior I find the silence I seek.
~ Clarice Lispector
When I prayed I achieved an emptiness of soul — and that emptiness is all I can ever have.
~ Clarice Lispector
Nací dura, heroica, solitaria y de pie. Y he encontrado mi contrapunto en el paisaje sin elementos pintorescos y sin belleza. La fealdad es mi estandarte de guerra. Yo amo lo feo con un amor de igual a igual. Y desafío a la muerte. Yo, yo soy mi propia muerte.
~ Clarice Lispector
For other people she didn't exist. Her only advantage over others was knowing how to swallow pills without any water, dry.
~ Clarice Lispector
I am absolutely tired of literature; only muteness keeps me company.
~ Clarice Lispector
I want to see birds flying or perched in trees—but far from my hands.
~ Clarice Lispector
Es que todo lo que tengo no se puede dar. Ni tomar. Yo misma puedo morir de sed ante mí. La soledad está mezclada en mi esencia... [...] -Cuando me acerqué- dijo, él sardónico- pensé que ibas a enseñarme algo más que eso. Necesitaba aquello que había adivinado en ti y que tú siempre me negaste.
~ Clarice Lispector
I'm lost on this Sunday that's neither hot nor cold, having already taken refuge in a movie theater... I wished
~ Clarice Lispector
Meu impulso de todos os momentos é ir embora.
~ Clarice Lispector
But as long as I have myself I won't be alone
~ Clarice Lispector
Amor será dar de presente ao outro a própria solidão? Pois é a última coisa que se pode dar de si.
~ Clarice Lispector
Amor será dar de presente a outro a própria solidão? Pois é a coisa mais última que se pode dar de si.
~ Clarice Lispector
Soledad es tener sólo destino humano.
~ Clarice Lispector
Soledad es tener sólo destino humano. Y soledad es no necesitar. No necesitar deja a un hombre muy solo, totalmente solo.
~ Clarice Lispector
And that was what I felt when reading your book: that solitude." "Imagine the solitude of the person who wrote it.
~ Clarice Lispector
E ninguém é eu. E ninguém é você. Esta é a solidão.
~ Clarice Lispector
I struggle to conquer more deeply my freedom of sensations and thoughts without any utilitarian meaning: I am alone, I and my freedom.
~ Clarice Lispector
Há coisas que só se aprende quando ninguém as ensina. E com a vida é assim. Mesmo há mais beleza em descobri-la sozinha, apesar do sofrimento.
~ Clarice Lispector
No. It's not easy. But it "is." I ate my own placenta so as not to have to eat for four days. To have milk to give you. Milk is a "this." And no one is I. No one is you. That is what solitude is.
~ Clarice Lispector
Adiós. No, quien viaja por la noche solo mira por la ventana y no dice adiós.
~ Clarice Lispector
I was really in the room.
~ Clarice Lispector
During his hours of bitter loneliness, when he became utterly aware and sensible, he understood the ultimate meaning of being alone. He realized how wrong his sense of values had been and how he had failed to see that the simple, the natural, the homely, the unpretentious things in life are what really matter.
~ Unknown