Fernando Pessoa Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Life, Depressing, Real

  Fernando Pessoa (2002). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.390, Penguin UK

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Suffering, Sometimes

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.190, Profile Books

• Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the self who suffers or takes joy in them. In the vast colony of our being there are many species of people who think and feel in different ways. Livro Do Desassossego

  Fernando Pessoa

  Thinking, Self, People

  Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (2002). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.294, Grove Press

• Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Sleep, Thinking

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

  Fernando Pessoa

  Pain, Pride, Suffering

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa (1982). Translated by Richard Zenith, p. 253, 2006.

• If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Writing, Men, Long

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.229, 1982.

• What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Moon, Errors, Perfect

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.77, 1982.

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