Suffering Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

15 Suffering quotes by Fernando Pessoa

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Pessoa’s fragmented selves speak to the dissonance of pain. In this modest set he captures the melancholy of a soul split across many voices.

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“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,…

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“Tedium … To suffer without suffering, to want without desire, to think without reason … It’s like being possessed by a negative demon,”

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“Those who truly suffer don’t form a group or go around as a mob. Those who suffer, suffer alone.”

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“Sickness occurs when we desire what we need and what’s desirable with equal intensity, suffering our lack of perfection as if we…

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For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion…

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

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“I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the…

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“The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which…

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I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses…

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Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the…

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“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the…

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“I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about…

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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being…

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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver…

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Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us…

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“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

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“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

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pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

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“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are…

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“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So…

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Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each…

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“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it…

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“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is…

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“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes…

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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

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“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the…

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