Quotes by Brazilian Authors

Falling from the sky like the rain, And I fly and sing like the little birds..., Movements that are not in vain, Everything has a life made of words.
Ana Claudia Antunes
The secret of happiness is to see all the marvels of the world, and never to forget the drops of oil on the spoon.
Paulo Coelho
Don't cry. She wouldn't like it. When I missed my father, I used to cry. Mama taught me when I cry, he is sad and will cry, too. I don't want my daddy sad. I'm sure you don't want your daughter sad, too.
Cristiane Serruya
Don’t waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.
Paulo Coelho
Where there is loyalty, weapons are of no use.
Paulo Coelho
So long as you do no harm to another, change your opinion once in a while. Contradict yourself without being embarrassed. This is your right. It doesn't matter what others think -because that's what they will think, in any case.
Paulo Coelho
How do you paint a writer's block?Just fill it with fifty shades of black.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Here was the opportunity to free herself from all those identical days and nights. pg 30
Paulo Coelho
We have an obligation to feel guilty." The words came out of her lips as if she were reciting an elegy. "Guilty. Because we kill the ones we love.
Cristiane Serruya
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.
Hélder Câmara
Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired.
Paulo Coelho
Everyone not already following their own path would begin to feel dissatisfied with themselves and be forced to make a choice: they would either have to accept an existence beset with disappointment and pain or else come to realise that everyone was born to be happy. Having made their choice, they would have no option but to change, and the great struggle, the Jihad, would begin.
Paulo Coelho
Don´t let egos get in the way to ruin your day. If someone holds their inflated ego, blow it away!
Ana Claudia Antunes
I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth.
Clarice Lispector
You cannot borrow half of who you are from someone else, yet people try to do it all of the time, they just call it a relationship!
Jennifer O'Neill
Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it's because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It's your mission on earth.
Paulo Coelho
If I can learn to understand this language without words, I can learn to understand the world.
Paulo Coelho
The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return.... Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything … They become the Soul of the World.
Paulo Coelho
Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time
Paulo Coelho
Writing is a bitch. It's an itch that I love to scratch.
Ana Claudia Antunes
When you’re in love, you’re capable of learning everything and knowing things you had never dared even to think, because love is the key to understanding of all the the mysteries.
Paulo Coelho
Opportunity makes the man
José de Alencar
His way isn't the same as mine, nor mine as his. But we're both in search of our destinies, and I respect him for that.
Paulo Coelho
I have grown weary of literature: silence alone comforts me. If I continue to write, it’s because I have nothing more to accomplish in this world except to wait for death. Searching for the word in darkness. Any little success invades me and puts me in full view of everyone. I long to wallow in the mud. I can scarcely control my need for self-abasement, my craving for licentiousness and debauchery. Sin tempts me, forbidden pleasures lure me. I want to be both pig and hen, then kill them and drink their blood.
Clarice Lispector
Love is just a word until someone comes along and gives it meaning.
Paulo Coelho
Nothing in this world happens by chance.
Paulo Coelho
‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning... Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
Chico Xavier
Because it's worth dreaming and expecting the best from you and others, because once you fulfill your dreams you can make other people happy as well.
Ana Claudia Antunes
How I'm glad to go back home!Once I truly have no more worry. Many of those who are in a hurry Endure setbacks in the outcome.
Ana Claudia Antunes
He started to estrange her... And they became strangers Who knew each other's heart, So broken as they drifted apart.
Ana Claudia Antunes
An intense life needs a touch of madness.
Paulo Coelho
Anyone who is observant, who discovers the person they have always dreamed of, knows that sexual energy comes into play before sex even takes place. The greatest pleasure isn't sex, but the passion with which it is practiced. When the passion is intense, then sex joins in to complete the dance, but it is never the principal aim.
Paulo Coelho
Sometimes something that you've been asking forIt's just something that you could not see before. For it was something that made you belong,And that was there the whole time all along.
Ana Claudia Antunes
The problem is that they don't even realize that they're walking a new road every day. They don't see that the fields are new and the seasons change. All they think about is food and water
Paulo Coelho
Well, there would be no sound if we shout on the background.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Basically, everything that happens in our life is our fault and ours alone. A lot of people go through the same difficulties we went through, and they react completely differently. We looked for the easiest way out: a separate reality
Paulo Coelho
I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.
Paulo Coelho
Treat me well and I will tell... Treat me bad and I feel sad. Treat me good, change my mood. Treat me sweet and call it quits!
Ana Claudia Antunes
Leave no livid life in your days but vivid days in your life
Ana Claudia Antunes
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
Clarice Lispector
If I must fall, may it be from a high place.
Paulo Coelho
Love simply is.
Paulo Coelho
It's better to lose some of battles in the struggle for your dreams than to be defeated without ever even knowing what you're fighting for.
Paulo Coelho
Rats! It's rainy outside,And to be a good fellaInvite a smile so wideNobody needs umbrella!
Ana Claudia Antunes
,,,we forget our good actions only slowly, and in fact never truly forget them.
Machado de Assis
Ignorance of the law of irreducibility was no excuse. I could no longer excuse myself with the claim that I didn't know the law -- for knowledge of self and of the world is the law that, even though unattainable, cannot be broken, and no one can excuse himself by saying that he doesn't know it. . . . The renewed originality of the sin is this: I have to carry out my unknowing, I shall be sinning originally against life.
Clarice Lispector
And sometimes we die to prove that we lived.
Fábio Moon
In every possibility of a mind May you travel, yet not blind. As a head filled with imagination, Goes a heart full of gold creation, It's never late to have a dream. Nor is it so far away as it seems, And, like a rearview mirror reveals, Thus a fantasy soon becomes real. It may be closer than it appears. Or at least it will show up clear. Never give up a dream for fear!
Ana Claudia Antunes
The more we become able to become a child again, to keep ourselves childlike, the more we can understand that because we love the world and we are open to understanding, to comprehension, that when we kill the child in us, we are no longer.
Paulo Freire
Whoever teaches learns in the act of teaching, and whoever learns teaches in the act of learning.
Paulo Freire
The rain is falling ever harder and all I can hear is the sound of the water. I'm drenched but I can't move.
Paulo Coelho
Love can only be found through the act of loving.
Paulo Coelho
Fortunate are those who take the first step. Someday people will realize that men and women are capable of speaking the language of the angels - that all of us are possessed of the gifts of the Holy Spirit and that we can perform miracles, cure, prophesy, and understand.
Paulo Coelho
Oh, you will, some day, just as I’ll hurt you too. That makes part of thiswhole thing called being human, but to excel it and sincerely forgive the otherfaults… that is what makes a real friendship, what strengthens it.
Léia Kiuski
God only allows us to see such things when he wants something to change
Paulo Coelho
I want the material of things. Humanity is drenched with humanization, as if that were necessary; and that false humanization trips up man and trips up his humanity. A thing exists that is fuller, deafer, deeper, less good, less bad, less pretty. Yet that thing too runs the risk, in our coarse hands, of becoming transformed into "purity", our hands that are coarse and full of words.
Clarice Lispector
People give flowers as presents because flowers contain the true meaning of love. Anyone tries to possess a flower will have to watch its beauty fading. But if you simply look at a flower on a field, you will keep it forever, because the flower is part of the evening and the sunset and the smell of damp earth and the clouds on the horizon.
Paulo Coelho
Being on Facebook too much in a row is like playing chess in a black hole. You never know if the next move will lead you to a checkmate or a mate checked.
Ana Claudia Antunes
Evil would never bring Good, however much they wanted to believe that it would. By the time they discovered the truth, it would be too late.
Paulo Coelho
The future is completely open and so is the past. And we are writing them right now. Making a different past or future is only up to us now.
Ana Claudia Antunes