Quote by: Fernando Pessoa

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.


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Author Bio


  • NameFernando Pessoa
  • DescriptionPortuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
  • AliasesFernando António Nogueira Pessoa
  • BornJune 13, 1888
  • DiedNovember 30, 1935
  • CountryPortugal
  • ProfessionPoet; Translator; Writer; Playwright; Philosopher; Essayist
  • WorksThe Book Of Disquiet