7 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Happiness

Fernando Pessoa quotes on happiness

1. The Gods sell when they give. / Glory is paid for with disgrace. / Poor are the happy, for they are / Just what passes.

16. These are Fortunate Islands, / These are lands without a place

65. My joy is as painful as my pain.

104. Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.

110. My curiosity sister of larks.

131. I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. [...] Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

152. There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.