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Quotes About Feelings

Eres la única forma que no produce hastío porque eres tornadiza con nuestro sentimiento, porque, como besas nuestra alegría, entretienes nuestro dolor y nuestro tedio y eres el opio que conforta y el sueño que nos hace descansar, y la muerte que cruza y junta las manos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am not a pessimist, I am merely sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa
In general, men weep little and, when they do complain, they make literature out of it.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Amar es fastidioso, pero tal vez sea preferible a no amar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don't feel are happy.
~ Fernando Pessoa
The downfall of classical ideals made all men potential artists, and therefore bad artists. When art depended on solid construction and the careful observance of rules, few could attempt to be artists, and a fair number of these were quite good. But when art, instead of being understood as creation, became merely an expression of feelings, then anyone could be an artist, because everyone has feelings.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Amar es la eterna inocencia. Y la única inocencia es no pensar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Amar é maçador, mas é talvez preferível a não amar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sometimes in the evening on Summer days, Even when there's not a breeze at all, it seems Like there's a light breeze blowing for a minute But the trees are unmoving In every leaf of their leaves And our feelings have had an illusion, An illusion of what would please them... from "XLI
~ Fernando Pessoa
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.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels. Let it serve those who are in command when they express themselves.
~ Fernando Pessoa
To live is to be other. Even feeling is impossible if one feels today what one felt yesterday, for that is not to feel, it is only to remember today what one felt yesterday, to be the living corpse of yesterday's lost life.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I was free from having to feel. It was in a certain sense home – the place, that is, where one doesn't feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Tenho uma grande tristeza Acrescentada à que sinto. Quero dizer-ma mas pesa O quanto comigo minto.
~ Fernando Pessoa
So many times, so many, like now, it has oppressed me to feel myself feel – to feel anguish just because it's a feeling, restlessness because I'm here, nostalgia for something I've never known, the sunset of all emotions, myself yellowing, subdued to grey sadness in my external selfawareness.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Diktaren är en låtsare. / Han låtsas så fullständigt / att han till och med låtsas ha ont / av de smärtor han verkligen känner.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Meu coração a bater Parece estar-me a lembrar Que, se um dia te esquecer, Será por ele parar.
~ Fernando Pessoa
the painful acuity of my sensations, even those that bring me joy; the joyful acuity of my sensations, even those that are sad.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Never to feel one's feelings wholeheartedly and then to elevate that wan victory to the point of being able to regard one's own ambitions, longings and desires with indifference; to pass by one's joys and griefs as one would a person in whom one feels no interest.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Only the happy govern, because to be sad it is necessary to feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.
~ Flann O'Brien
It was one of those pure feelings that do not interfere with life, that are cultivated because they are rare, and whose loss would afflict more than their passion rejoices.
~ Flaubert
Aimer quoi que et non parce que.
~ Flaubert Gustav Flaubert
I am very shy with the girls I fancy.
~ Gethin Jones