Gregory > Gregory's Quotes

“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“It is curious that I can't say who I am. That is to say, I know it all too well, but I can't say it.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“Would it be simplistic to think the moral problem with regards to others consists in behaving as one ought to, and the moral problem with regards to oneself is managing to feel what one ought to?”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Real life is so secret that not even I, who am dying of it, have been given the password, I am dying without knowing of what.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“The difference between the insane and the not-insane person is that the latter doesn't do or say the things he thinks.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“But what can I do if you are not touched by my defects, whereas I loved yours. My candour was crushed underfoot by you.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Stream of Life

“But I’m afraid to begin composing in order to be understood by the imaginary someone, I’m afraid to start to “make” a meaning, with the same tame madness that till yesterday was my healthy way of fitting into a system. Will I need the courage to use an unprotected heart and keep talking to the nothing and the no one? as a child thinks about the nothing. And run the risk of being crushed by chance.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“So long as I have questions to which there are no answers, I shall go on writing.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“And it's inside myself that I must create someone who will understand.”
― Clarice Lispector

“I've never been free in my whole life. Inside I've always chased myself. I've become intolerable to myself. I live in a lacerating duality. I'm seemingly free, but I'm a prisoner inside of me.”
― Clarice Lispector, A Breath of Life

“I am only true when I’m alone.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“Never suffer because you don't have an opinion on this or that topic. Never suffer because you are not something or because you are.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“To think is an act. To feel is a fact.”
― Clarice Lispector

“For one has the right to shout.
So, I am shouting.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“My past is everything I failed to be.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while. […]. I'm two, and both keep their distance — Siamese twins that aren't attached.”
― Fernando Pessoa , The Book of Disquiet

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I filled time with consciousness and thought.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet