Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Best 6 The Book of Disquiet Quotes by Fernando Pessoa
The Book of Disquiet Quotes
“I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.”
“Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”
“My past is everything I failed to be.”
“There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful.”
“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept — our own selves — that we love.”
“We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.”
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“A well-informed mind is the best security against the contagion of folly and vice. The vacant mind is ever on the watch for relief, and ready to plunge into error, to escape from the languor of idleness. Store it with ideas, teach it the pleasure of thinking; and the temptations of the world without, will be counteracted by the gratifications derived from the world within.”
