11 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Suffering

Fernando Pessoa quotes on suffering

14. Who wants to go beyond the Bojador / Must go beyond pain.

47. In order to understand, I destroyed myself.

52. What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.

65. My joy is as painful as my pain.

68. My life is as if you've hit me with it.

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

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.

99. I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

124. For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the Chosen of Pain.

140. My head and the universe ache me.

141. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.