“I don't even suffer. My disdain for everything is so complete that I even disdain myself. The contempt I have for the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Those who truly suffer don’t form a group or go around as a mob. Those who suffer, suffer alone.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Knowing how easily even the smallest things torture me, I deliberately avoid contact with them. A cloud passing in front of the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Ah! The anguish, the vile rage, the despair Of not being able to express With a shout, an extreme and bitter shout,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
