Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Mirrors, Inventor

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

• Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Eye, Men

• After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the blue above and made the world below rejoice with the freshness of the recent rain. It left heaven in our souls and a freshness in our hearts.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Rain, Heart, Blue

• Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Thinking, Emotion

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• 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”

• I know nothing and my heart aches

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Ache, Knows

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.114, Profile Books

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Peaceful, Calm

• THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fall, Heart, Order

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.54, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• Decadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Loss, Thinking

  Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Heart, Chill, Feels

  Fernando Pessoa (1996). “The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon”

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