Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet

Quotes

• “In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And m...”
• “My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole in the...”
• “My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Ev...”
• “I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses m...”
• “Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we ca...”
• “My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and...”
• “There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
• “Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”