Fernanda Gomes > Fernanda's Quotes

“It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“ser o que se pode é a felicidade. pensou nisto a isaura. não adianta sonhar com o que é feito apenas de fantasia e querer aspirar ao impossível. a felicidade é a aceitação do que se é e se pode”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, O Filho de Mil Homens

“And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Estava sozinho, os seus amores haviam falhado e sentia que tudo lhe faltava pela metade, como se tivesse apenas metade dos olhos, metade do peito e metade das pernas, metade da casa e dos talheres, metade dos dias, metade das palavras para se explicar às pessoas. Via-se metade ao espelho e achava tudo demasiado breve, precipitado, como se as coisas lhe fugissem, a esconderem-se para evitar a sua companhia. Via-se metade ao espelho porque se via sem mais ninguém, carregado de ausências e de silêncios como os precipícios ou poços fundos. Para dentro do homem era um sem fim, e pouco ou nada do que continha lhe servia de felicidade. Para dentro do homem o homem caía.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, O Filho de Mil Homens

“Mas não era uma tristeza, era exatamente uma saudade de ter sofrido o que sofrera, o necessário para lhe ensinar a usufruir mais tarde, agora, a felicidade. Achava ele que se devia nutrir carinho por um sofrimento sobre o qual se soube construir a felicidade.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, O Filho de Mil Homens

“O Crisóstomo explicava que o amor era uma atitude. Uma predisposição natural para se ser a favor de outrem. É isso o amor. Uma predisposição natural para se favorecer alguém. Ser, sem sequer se pensar, por outra pessoa.”
― Valter Hugo Mãe, O Filho de Mil Homens

“We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown, with naturalness and all due respect”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“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 Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful — only then do I find myself and feel comforted.”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

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has been my inner life.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I've always been an ironic dreamer, unfaithful to my inner promises.
Like a complete outsider, a casual observer of whom I thought I was,
I've always enjoyed watching my daydreams go down in defeat.
I was never convinced of what I believed in.
I filled my hands with sand, called it gold, and opened them up to let it slide through.
Words were my only truth.
When the right words were said, all was done; the rest was the sand that had always been.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Everything takes time. Bees have to move very fast to stay still.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“the psychological need to believe that others take you as seriously as you take yourself. There is nothing particularly wrong with it, as psychological needs go, but yet of course we should always remember that a deep need for anything from other people makes us easy pickings.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“The trick to this solution is that you’d have to be 100% honest. Meaning not just sincere but almost naked. Worse than naked - more like unarmed. Defenseless. ‘This thing I feel, I can’t name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?’ - this sort of direct question is not for the squeamish. For one thing, it’s perilously close to “Do you like me? Please like me,” which you know quite well that 99% of all interhuman manipulation and bullshit gamesmanship that goes on goes on precisely because the idea of saying this sort of thing straight out is regarded as somehow obsene. In fact one of the very last few interperonal taboos we have is kind of obscenely naked direct interrogation of somebody else. It looks pathetic and desperate. That’s how it’ll look to the reader. And it will have to. There’s no way around it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“There’s been time this whole time. You can’t kill time with your heart. Everything takes time.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“Rhythms are relations between what you believe and what you believed before.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“No, what they want is to experience a passion so huge, overwhelming, powerful and irresistible that it obliterates any guilt or tension or culpability they might feel about betraying their perceived responsibilities.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews with Hideous Men

“Existence and life break people in all kinds of awful fucking ways all the time.”
― David Foster Wallace, Brief Interviews With Hideous Men

“I told her once I wasn’t good at anything. She told me survival is a talent.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“When you’re sad you need to hear your sorrow structured into sound.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“It was a different precondition that tipped the balance: the state of contrariety. My ambition was to negate. The world, whether dense or hollow, provoked only my negations. When I was supposed to be awake, I was asleep; when I was supposed to speak, I was silent; when a pleasure offered itself to me, I avoided it. My hunger, my thirst, my loneliness and boredom and fear were all weapons aimed at my enemy, the world. They didn’t matter a whit to the world, of course, and they tormented me, but I got a gruesome satisfaction from my sufferings. They proved my existence. All my integrity seemed to lie in saying No.”
― Susanna Kaysen, Girl, Interrupted

“The line between the reality that is photographed because it seems beautiful to us and the reality that seems beautiful because it has been photographed is very narrow."

- from "The Adventure of a Photographer”
― Italo Calvino, Difficult Loves

“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“To love makes one solitary.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”
― Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway