5 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Regret

Fernando Pessoa quotes on regret

27. A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.

57. I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?

73. There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.

123. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

147. They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.