ENDINGS

by Alexander Search · 27-12-1907
Published 27/12/1907

Farewells, departures, goings - these are most sad:

They are endings, dissolutions; they drive sentiment mad.

Even the fall of priests, of tyrants, of slaves and of kings

Has the bitterness and the sadness of the finishing of things.

#alexander search #farewell #fernando pessoa #impermanence #loss #melancholy

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