Sometimes in the middle of life a change

by Fernando Pessoa · 12-11-1907
Published 12/11/1907

Sometimes in the middle of life a change

Suddenly comes like an alienation

A sense of voidness enormous, strange

And a void, deep desolation.


A sense of being left alone

And more and more than abandoned

(…)

'Tis a sense half as if I were dead.

#alienation #existential dread #fernando pessoa #loneliness #midlife crisis #mortality

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