I cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I’m…

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

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

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

— Fernando Pessoa

“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

— Fernando Pessoa

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“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

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

— Fernando Pessoa

“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