“Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than dreaming of the front door to the office?” — 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
“My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All of us are near-sighted, except on the inside. Only our dreaming sees with clear vision.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — 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’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
“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
“Not even by painting my window with colourful dreams can I block out the noise of the life outside, oblivious to my… — 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
“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,… — 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
“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension!… — 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 want you only for my dreams,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare not… — 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
“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
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“enjoying a tranquillity in which I won’t write the works I don’t write now, and to keep on not writing them I’ll… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To live is to be other. It’s not even possible to feel, if one feels today what he felt yesterday. To feel… — 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
“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
![“To write is to objectify dreams, to create an outer world as a material reward [?] of our nature as creators. To publish is to give this outer world to others; but what for, if the outer world common to us and to them is the ‘real’ outer world, the one made of visible and tangible matter? What do…” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/b97/fernando-pessoa-177_dreams_to-write-is-to-objectify-dreams-to-creat_1912769.jpg)
![“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)
