Quote #25

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

More from Fernando Pessoa

  1. There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.
  2. We are two abysses -- a well staring at the sky.
  3. Strenght without agility is a mere mass.
  4. A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
  5. Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
  6. The train slows down, it's the Cais do Sodre. I arrived to Lisbon, but not to a conclusion.
  7. 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 …
  8. We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.

All Fernando Pessoa quotes