The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I read and am liberated. I acquire objectivity. I cease being myself and so scattered. And what I read, instead of being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“It’s not demons (who at least have a human face) but Hell itself that seems to be laughing inside me, it’s 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
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
“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
