I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an… — 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
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It was just a moment, and I saw myself. I can no longer even say what I was. And now I’m sleepy,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension!… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It sometimes occurs to me, with sad delight, that if one day (in a future I won’t be part of) the sentences… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and… — 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
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — 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
“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 Copy Share Image
“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When… — 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
“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 lived inscrutable hours, a succession of disconnected moments, in my night-time walk to the lonely shore of the sea. All the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“There are times when everything wearies us, including what we would normally find restful. Wearisome things weary us by definition, restful things… — 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
“When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different:… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I wander as I walk straight ahead. When it’s time, I show up at the office like everyone else. When it’s not… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want… — 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
“I placidly wait for what I don't know- My future and the future of everything. In the end there will only be… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room… — 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
