“We hear death in words they speak to express sensual bliss. We read sensuality and life in words they drop from their… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“With slight misconceptions of reality we fabricate our hopes and beliefs, and we live off crusts that we call cakes, like poor… — 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
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — 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
“Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let us give up the illusion of hope, which betrays; of love, which wearies; of life, which surfeits but never satisfies; and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps everything in life is the degeneration of something else. Perhaps existence is always an approximation – an advent, or surroundings. Just… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarate, and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Calm because I’m unknown, And myself because I’m calm, I want to fill my days With wanting nothing from them. For those… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything, except boredom, bores me. I’d like, without being calm, to calm down, To take life every day Like a medicine— One… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — 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
“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from what I love. I want to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My whole life has been a battle lost on the map. Cowardice didn't even make it to the battlefield, where perhaps it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old,… — 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
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The only thing I feel to be really mine is a huge incapacity, a vast emptiness, an incompetence for everything that is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's… — 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
“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Better to write than to dare live, even if living means merely to buy bananas in the sunlight, as long as the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Does a flower really have beauty? Does a fruit really have beauty? No: they have only color and form And existence. Beauty… — 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
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“As with all tragedies, the real tragedy of my life is just an irony of Fate. I reject life because it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt… — 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
