Quote #16
These are Fortunate Islands, / These are lands without a place
More from Fernando Pessoa
- God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, / but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
- Oh Portugal, today you are fog...
- Who wants to go beyond the Bojador / Must go beyond pain.
- Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
- Everything is worthwhile / if the soul isn't small.
- ... And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothi…
- Oh salty sea, how much of your salt / is tears from Portugal
- I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.