8 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Death

Fernando Pessoa quotes on death

11. Here lies, in the small extreme beach, the Captain Of The End.

19. ... And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.

20. 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.

60. A sort of anteneurosis of what I will be when I will not longer be freezes my body and soul. A kind of remembrance of my future death makes me shudder from the inside.

79. His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.

87. Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.

106. I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. [...] I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

135. It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.