To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Two people say ‘I love you’ or mutually think it and feel it, and each has in mind a different idea, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And there are many whose dullness and sameness of life is not what they wanted for their life, nor the result of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All pleasure is a vice because seeking pleasure is what everyone does in life, and the worst vice of all is to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There are pigs like me that wallow in their destiny, not drawing away from the banality of daily life because they’re enthralled… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour.. ...On a clear bright day even… — 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
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for… — 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
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“167 It’s one of those days when the monotony of everything oppresses me like being thrown into jail. The monotony of everything… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Masquerades disclose the reality of souls. As long as no one sees who we are, we can tell the most intimate details… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I don’t know if I have a fever, as I feel I do, or if I’ve stopped having the fever of sleeping… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — 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
“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“This isn’t the case with literature. Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I also have my crochet. It dates from when I began to think. Stitch on stitch forming a whole without a whole… — 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
