Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hope, Hurt, Regret

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

• If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Feelings, Fever

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.324, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we felt yesterday is not to feel at all--it's merely to remember today what we felt yesterday, since today we are the living cadaver of yesterday's lost life.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Yesterday, Feelings, Today

• 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.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Hurt, Heart, Law

  Fernando Pessoa (1974). “Selected Poems”

• What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys me, and an unusual capacity for dreaming to keep me entertained. A dead will and a reflection that cradles it, like a living child. From, The Book of Disquiet

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Children, Book

• A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it made me sorry, did not horrify me. But what am I experiencing when I read myself as if I were someone else? On which bank am I standing if I see myself in the depths?

  Fernando Pessoa

  Sorry, Imagination, Feelings

• Tomorrow I too – this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself – yes, tomorrow I too will be someone who no longer walks these streets, someone others will evoke with a vague: 'I wonder what's become of him?” And everything I do, everything I feel, everything I experience, will be just one less passer-by on the daily streets of some city or other.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Cities, Soul

  "The Book of Disquiet".

• Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Ego, Feelings, Mines

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 156, 2006.

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