With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, lik — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, lik — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, lik — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, lik — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, lik — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Download Customize

With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor children who make-believe they’re happy.

— Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
Pin Share Tweet Telegram
Topics
disquiet hope lie life reality truth

More “Disquiet” Quotes

Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind. — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depress — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse. — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally f — we should treat each other therefore with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.
I don't complain about the horror of life — I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about is that I exist and suffer and can't even dream of being removed from my feeling of suffering.
An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it — Alberto Moravia, Contempt
What could anyone confess that would be worth anything or serve any useful purpose? What has happened to us has either h — if the former it has no novelty value and if the latter it will be incomprehensible.
This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movement — Fernando Pessoa
A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a lon — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
Attempting to succeed in a competitive external environment, we can lose track of how to live without anxiety. — Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls