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Quotes About Loss

Bog, kom se služilo poljupcima, mrtav je sada!
~ Fernando Pessoa
It is as if I am an old man who sees all the friends of his childhood dying around him and who thinks his own death at hand.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To be reincarnated in a stone or a speck of dust – my soul weeps with this yearning. I'm losing my taste for everything, including even my taste for finding everything tasteless.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To find one's personality by losing it — faith itself subscribes to that sense of destiny.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Adeus, Ophelinha. Durma e coma, e não perca gramas.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Indifferent to this, and grieving only as much as he needs to and for as little time as possible — over the death of a son, for example, whom he will forget as the years pass, except on his birthday; over the loss of money, which he mourns until he gets some more or becomes used to the loss — humanity continues digesting and loving. Life recovers and carries on. The dead are buried. Losses forgotten.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A-Å£i g?si perosnalitatea în faptul de a o pierde,chiar ÅŸi credinÅ£a confirm? acest înÅ£eles al destinului.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A Decadência é a perda total da inconsciência; porque a inconsciência é o fundamento da vida. O coração, se pudesse pensar, pararia.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ah, my dead childhood! A corpse ever alive in my breast!
~ Fernando Pessoa
More things have died in me than just my past.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The weariness caused by all illusions and all that they entail – our losing them, the uselessness of our having them, the pre-weariness of having to have them in order to lose them, the regret of having had them, the intellectual chagrin of having had them while knowing full well they would end.
~ Fernando Pessoa
What I was and will never be again! What I had and will never have again!
~ Fernando Pessoa
Since I cannot live without affection, why was that affection taken from me?
~ Fernando Pessoa
The beauty of ruins? That they're no longer good for anything.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Não se pode comer um bolo sem o perder.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Outros haverão de ter O que houvermos de perder. Outros poderão achar O que, no nosso encontrar, Foi achado, ou não achado, Segundo o destino dado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To possess is to be possessed, and therefore to lose oneself.
~ Fernando Pessoa
As She Passes When I am sitting at the window, Through the panes, which the snow blurs, I see the lovely images, hers, as She passes ... passes ... passes by ... Over me grief has thrown its veil:- Less a creature in this world And one more angel in the sky. When I am sitting at the window, Through the panes, which the snow blurs, I think I see the image, hers, That's not now passing ... not passing by ...
~ Fernando Pessoa
O malmequer que arrancaste Deu-te nada no seu fim, Mas o amor que me arrancaste, Se deu nada, foi a mim.
~ Fernando Pessoa
El amor más grande es, por tanto, la muerte o el olvido, o la renuncia, todos los amores que son otros tantos absurdiandos del amor.
~ Fernando Pessoa
que pesa duramente na alma: é a estupidez que sacrifica vidas e haveres a qualquer coisa inevitavelmente inútil.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The everyday external things of the one who died
~ Fernando Pessoa
La Decadencia es la pérdida total de la inconsciencia, pues la inconsciencia es el fundamento de la vida. Si el corazón pudiera pensar, se detendría.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The Irish Times ran an editorial in 1956, full of dark intimations that the Irish would become like other indigenous peoples who had lost out in the Darwinian struggle for survival: 'What matters is that we will disappear as a composite race. We will add our name or names to those of the races that assimilate us; but as an entity, we will cease to exist.
~ Fintan O'Toole