Fernando Pessoa

I know not what tomorrow will bring.

— Fernando Pessoa

My past is everything I failed to be.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Durmo e desdurmo.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything is absurd.

— Fernando Pessoa

To think is to destroy.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Sou do tamanho do que vejo!”

— Fernando Pessoa

“To live is to not think.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

“A Arte é, com efeito, o aperfeiçoamento subjectivo da vida.”

— Fernando Pessoa

At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Quien no ve bien una palabra , no puede ver bien un alma.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

— Fernando Pessoa

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

— Fernando Pessoa

…to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect…

— Fernando Pessoa

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

— Fernando Pessoa

Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Omnia fui, nihil expedit – I have been everything, nothing is worth anything.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinion is to exist. To have every opinion is to…

— Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Does dreaming of princesses serve a better purpose than dreaming of the front door to the office?”

— Fernando Pessoa

“we’re shadows of gestures performed by someone else, embodied effects, consequences that feel.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I believe that saying a thing is to keep its virtues and take away its terror.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Baste a quem baste o que lhe basta O bastante de lhe bastar! A vida é breve, a alma é vasta: Ter é tardar.”

— Fernando Pessoa

And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To act—that is true wisdom. I can be what I want to be, but I have to want whatever it is. Success…

— Fernando Pessoa

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Dusk shrouds the long and useless day. Even the hope it denied us crumbles To nothing . . . Life is a…

— Fernando Pessoa

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To explain is to disbelieve. Every philosophy is a diplomacy dressed up as eternity… Like diplomacy, it has no real substance, existing…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Brief dark shadow of a downtown tree, light sound of water falling into the sad pool, green of the trimmed lawn –…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My generation was born into a world where those with a heart as well as a brain couldn’t find any support. The…

— Fernando Pessoa

“One of my constant preoccupations is trying to understand how it is that other people exist, how it is that there are…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Alles ist so vergeblich wie ein Herumstochern in Asche und so vage wie der Augenblick, bevor der Morgen graut. Und das Licht…

— Fernando Pessoa

“All literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we…

— Fernando Pessoa