#The book of Disquiet

[metamorphesque]

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[flowerytale]

Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

[wedarkacademia]

My God, my God, whose performance am I watching? How many people am I? Who am I? What is this space between myself and myself?

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[iindex]

The Book of Disquiet / Fernando Pessoa / 1982

[marejadilla]

“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.” ― Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

From @journalofanobody & @anetteva

[funeral]

All it would take to make a catalogue of monsters is to photograph in words the things the night brings to drowsy souls unable to sleep. These things have all the incoherence of dreams without the alibi of sleeping. They hover like bats over the soul’s passivity, or like vampires that suck the blood of submission.

They’re larvae from the debris on the hillside, shadows that fill the valley, remnants left by destiny. Sometimes they’re worms, loathsome to the very soul that cradles and breeds them; sometimes they’re ghosts that sinisterly skulk around nothing at all; sometimes they pop out as snakes from the absurd hollows of spent emotions.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[bookmania]

To kill our dream is to kill ourselves. It is like mutilating our soul. The dream is what is most truly, impenetrably, ineradicably ours.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet 

[dysphoresque]

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

[mybruisedankleneedsakiss]

What are those people who wake up from dreams? Where else do they go?

Fernando Pessoa, The book of disquiet / Call Down The Hawk Maggie Stiefvater / artwork by Ram Han / We Should Be Well Prepared Mary Oliver / Dreams tonite by Alvvays / unknown / Bastille / The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater /Sleeping Beauty / Dreams by The Cranberries

[amicus-noctis]

“I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.” ― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Painting: "Twilight" by Sergey A. Tutunov

[embeccy]

"Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life."

- Fernando Pessoa

[flowerytale]

James Baldwin, from If Beale Street Could Talk Florence and the Machine, from Various Storms & Saints Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre Fernando Pessoa, from The Book of Disquiet

Heart imagery by Andrea Zanatelli Eye with Tear (oil paint and resin tear on canvas) by Nancy Fouts Douleur d'amour (detail) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau

[uaravsh]

"I am overwhelmed by a vague sadness about life, an inner anxiety that makes me nervous and uneasy."

- 𝙵𝚎𝚛𝚗𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚘 𝙿𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚘𝚊 , The Book of Disquiet

[leologs]

Which is that one book that you pick up when you want to ignore life?

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[marejadilla]

“...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.” ― Fernando Pessoa, "The Book of Disquiet"

[funeral]

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet