“I am nothing. I will never be anything. I cannot wish to be anything. Bar that, I have in me all the… — 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
“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
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I'll be in an institution for paupers, happy in my utter defeat, mixed up with the rabble of would-be geniuses who were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Civilisation consists in giving something a name that doesn't belong to it and then dreaming over the result. And the false name… — 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
“I'm almost convinced that I'm never awake. I'm not sure if I'm not in fact dreaming when I live, and living when… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“How is it done? By not doing. By dreaming insistently. By performing our daily duties but living, simultaneously, in the imagination. Travelling… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I go forward slowly, dead, and my vision is no longer mine, it’s nothing: it’s only the vision of the human animal… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I… — 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
“I have cultivated several personalities within myself. I constantly cultivate personalities. Each of my dreams, immediately after I dream it, is incarnated… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The autumn will take everything, everything I ever thought or dreamed, everything I did or did not do, spent matches scattered at… — 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
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — 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
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
“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
“O night in which the stars feign light, O night that alone is the size of the Universe, make me, body and… — 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
“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
“I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores… — 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
