9 Fernando Pessoa Quotes on Time

Fernando Pessoa quotes on time

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

34. I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling.

35. The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!

36. I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

74. I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

86. It's been a long time since I've been me.

133. Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

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.

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.