“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
“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.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
Fernando PessoaFernando Pessoa was a Portuguese poet and writer, renowned for his profound influence on 20th-century literature. He is celebrated not only for his own works but also for the creation of approximately...