As I walk, I construct perfect sentences that I cannot remember later at home. I donโt know if the ineffable poetry of those sentences derived from what they were or from their never having been (written).
Fernando PessoaTime, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly.
Fernando PessoaAt 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.
Fernando PessoaIf, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. All movements are one great standstill. Nothing means anything to me, not because it's unfamiliar but because I don't know what it is. The world has slipped away. And in the bottom of my soul - as the only reality of this moment - there's an intense and invisible grief, a sadness like the sound of someone crying in a dark room.
Fernando Pessoa