I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. — 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
“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
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions… — 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
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our own… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness – nothing in the heart. I have faith in nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Tobacco Shop’) and compares his thinking to ‘an overturned bucket’ (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that ‘Nothing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — 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
