Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Regret

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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

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.

Fernando Pessoa

Hope, Hurt, Regret

Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). “Book of Disquietude”, Carcanet Press Limited

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

Fernando Pessoa

Regret, No Regrets, Painful

"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p. 111, 1982.

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

Fernando Pessoa

Kings, Regret, Broken

"The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, p.250, 1982.

Fernando Pessoa Quotes about Regret

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