All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming. — 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
“The most contemptible thing about dreams is that everyone has them.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that… — 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
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
Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream. — 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
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
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's… — 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 Image
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 Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
