The Book of Disquiet Quotes
Portuguese novels, Modernist novels
Top Quotes
“Christ is a form of emotion(272)”
“To understand, I destroyed myself.(48)”
“The countryside is always where we aren't.(375)”
“I never learned how to exist.(215)”
“Faith is the instinct of action.(304)”
“Renunciation is liberation. Not wanting is power.(123)”
“The Gods are the incarnation of what we can never be.(375)”
“Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.(60)”
“I suffer from not suffering,from not knowing how to suffer.(468)”
“Every effort is a crime, because every gesture is a dead dream.(310)”
“Let grammar rule the man who doesn't know how to think what he feels.(84)”
“Who even knows what he thinks or wants? Who knows what he is to himself?(95)”
“Every sound mind believes in God. No sound mind believes in a definite God.(473)”
“To have touched the feet of Christ is no excuse for mistakes in punctuation.(256)”
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.(116)”
“Opportunity is like money, which, come to think of it, is nothing but an opportunity.(321)”
“And why should anyone express himself? What little he may say would be better left unsaid.(328)”
“Life is the hesitation between an exclamation and a question. Doubt is resolved by a period.(375)”
“I have no other virtue, I at least have the permanent novelty of free, uninhibited sensation.(70)”
“We never know self-realization. We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.(11)”