For Antero de Quental, believing in a supreme God was the foundation on which he based his whole lifes project. The loss of this belief transformed the poet into an anguished, pessimistic and questioning being. These feelings remained throughout his whole life, leading him to a search for God by the ways of philosophy. Following those, he started to give new names to God - Goodness, Justice, Truth, Absolute, Idea, Ignotus, Unconscious -, in an attempt to conciliate his new being and what he had been in his youth. In this search for the impossible, he found only a fake solution: evasion trough death. As a romantic - which, deep down, he had always been - he killed himself in the Isle of São Miguel, sitting at a bench on a town square, facing a wall where one could read the word whose sense had been lost to him: Hope.