I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
Fernando PessoaI always live in the present. I donโt know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.
Fernando PessoaNever having discovered qualities in myself which could attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.
Fernando PessoaOnce we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream, as something that pretended to exist while we were sleeping. And we will become subtly and profoundly indifferent towards all of life's setbacks and calamities. Those who die turned a corner, which is why we've stopped seeing them; those who suffer pass before us like a nightmare, if we feel, or like an unpleasant daydream, if we think. And even our own suffering won't be more than this nothingness.
Fernando Pessoa