Disquiet Quotes

“An uncertain evil causes anxiety because, at the bottom of one's heart, one goes on hoping till the last moment that it may not be true; a certain evil, on the other hand, instills, for a time, a kind of dreary tranquillity.”
― Alberto Moravia, Contempt

“Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Boredom and ineffective attempts to escape tedium are the perpetual lot of humankind.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“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

“This little boy playing next to me is an intellectual mass of cells - better yet, he's a clockwork of subatomic movements, a strange electrical conglomeration of millions of solar systems in minature. [58, Zenith trans.]”
― Fernando Pessoa

“A life premised upon honest effort and questing for love is bound to generate regret and remorse.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“(...) grinding your teeth in silent impotence to sink into luxurious inertia, brooding in the fact that there is no one even got you to feel vindictive against, that you have not, and perhaps will never have, an object of your spite, that it is a sleight of hand, a bit of juggling, a card-sharper's trick, that it is simply a mess, no knowing what and no knowing who, but in spite of all these uncertainties and jugglings, still there is an ache in you, and the more you do not know, the worse the ache.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground

“A person can hurry through or sleep walk through life, but whenever they stop to catch their breath or awaken from a long nap, they will find apprehension, disquiet, and fretfulness waiting their directed attention.”
― 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

“A mature person reaps joy in the commonplace acts of living, appreciates the serenity of just being, while balancing the responsibilities that come naturally about when deeply immersed in family and community affairs. Directing their attention outward, assisting other people in their troubled times, while denying themselves the indulgence of self-absorption frees a person’s bidding mind from a jumble of discordant thoughts, wants, and unholy bequests.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Disquietude that springs from the fundamental nature of being a human being is vaster and more encompassing than depression, which has a cause and therefore a cure.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Only one thing surprises me more than the stupidity with which most men live their lives and that is the intellegence inherent in that stupidity. [...] The wise man makes his life monotonous, for then even the tiniest accident becomes imbued with great significance.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“I have indigestion of the soul.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Among the sensations that inwardly torture us to the point of becoming pleasurable, the disquiet provoked by the world's mystery is one of the most common and complex.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

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― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Pedi tão pouco à vida e disse mesmo pouco a vida me negou.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

“Mover-se é viver, dizer-se é sobreviver.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet