“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And now I’m sleepy, because I think – I don’t know why – that the meaning of it all is to sleep.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine’s red mirror And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No, we don’t feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There’s no sunset so lovely it couldn’t be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn’t bring a yet sounder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since… — 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
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
Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m… — 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
“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
“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
![“The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never…” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/22e/fernando-pessoa-177_affair_the-idea-of-any-social-obligation-just-t_754740.jpg)
