Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But our superiority is not the kind that many dreamers have imagined we have. The dreamer isn’t superior to the active man… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In the plausible intimacy of approaching evening, as I stand waiting for the stars to begin at the window of this fourth… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — 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
