“Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than dreaming of the front door to the office?” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough... — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But if the Dream Kings were mine, what would I have to dream about? If I possessed the impossible landscapes, what would… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“… satisfied with dreams only when I’m not dreaming, satisfied with the world only when I’m dreaming far away from it. A… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have to choose what I detest - either dreaming which my intelligence hates, or action, which my sensibility loathes; either action,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In one of these tales, ‘The Ascetic’, the title character tells his interlocutor that paradises and nirvanas are ‘illusions inside other illusions.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To dream, for example, that I’m simultaneously, separately, severally the man and the woman on a stroll that a man and woman… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
![“The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely…” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/277/fernando-pessoa-177_bed_the-principle-tragedy-of-my-life-is-like_2746196.jpg)
