Life Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

— Fernando Pessoa

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

— Fernando Pessoa

“In this calm and stupid life, I never know how I should act.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

— Fernando Pessoa

Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.

— Fernando Pessoa

Life is good, but Wine is better.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Each drop of rain is my failed life weeping in nature.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

— Fernando Pessoa

“I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I’m proud of myself for dissenting from life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move.

— Fernando Pessoa

As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

— Fernando Pessoa

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

— Fernando Pessoa

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

— Fernando Pessoa

“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is…

— Fernando Pessoa

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've…

— Fernando Pessoa

All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as…

— Fernando Pessoa

What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,…

— Fernando Pessoa

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life…

— Fernando Pessoa

The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more…

— Fernando Pessoa

My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in…

— Fernando Pessoa

“life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t know what we’re doing, life is absolutely unreal in its directly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing more difficult than to…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains…

— Fernando Pessoa

“If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same…

— Fernando Pessoa