Quote #17
Oh Portugal, today you are fog...
More from Fernando Pessoa
- These are Fortunate Islands, / These are lands without a place
- Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
- God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, / but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
- ... 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…
- Who wants to go beyond the Bojador / Must go beyond pain.
- 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.
- Everything is worthwhile / if the soul isn't small.
- Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and …