“And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear it as nothing and as something else simultaneously, as if gross horror and non-existence could coincide there, as if my coffin could entrap the eternal breathing of a bodily soul, as if immortality could be tormented by confinement. The idea of hell, which only a satanic soul could have invented seems to me to have derived from this sort of confusion - a mixture of two different fears that contradict and contaminate each other.”
Quote by Fernando Pessoa
Author
You May Also Like
“As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edward Gibbon (Illustrated)
“What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.”
“And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.”
Source: Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems and Other Writings
