Fernando Pessoa: Trending quotes (page 12)

“I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost.”

“Lord, may the pain be ours, And the weakness that it brings, But at least give us the strength, Of not showing it to anyone!”

“Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.”

“I know nothing and my heart aches”

“Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.”

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then it won't be understood.”

“Every gesture is a revolutionary act.”

“The unnatural and the strange have a perfume of their own”

“Without madness what is man
more than the healthy beast,
corpse adjourned that procreates?”

“At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.”

“I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else.”

“I am the escaped one,
After I was born
They locked me up inside me
But I left.
My soul seeks me,
Through hills and valley,
I hope my soul
Never finds me.”

“Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!”

“Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.”

“And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.”

“But my sadness is comforting
Because it’s right and natural
And because it’s what the soul should feel
When it already thinks it exists
And the hand pick flowers
And the soul takes no notice.”

“Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.”

“But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?”

“I Know, I Alone

I know, I alone
How much it hurts, this heart
With no faith nor law
Nor melody nor thought.

Only I, only I
And none of this can I say
Because feeling is like the sky -
Seen, nothing in it to see.”