The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

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.

THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I wasn't you when you dreamed at the seashore.

Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.

pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence.

I’m losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.

At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.