Fernando Pessoa on Time
Browse 9 quotations attributed to Fernando Pessoa, catalogued under time, with dates where available.
This page displays 9 quotations attributed to Fernando Pessoa and filed under "time" in QuoteLineage. The selection is ordered by stored importance and quality scores, not citation counts. A topic label describes how an entry is catalogued; it does not establish the theme's importance in the author's work.
Attributed to Fernando Pessoa, entry #176231: "A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today."
Attributed to Fernando Pessoa, entry #238084: "Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious."
9 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa on Time
"A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today."
"Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious."
"The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!"
"I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have."
"I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by."
"I sleep and I unsleep. On the other side of me, beyond where I lie down, the silence of the house touches infinity. I hear time falling, drop by drop, and no falling drop is heard falling."
"It's been a long time since I've been me."
"Wasting time has an esthetics to it."
"I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved. I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living."