--- title: "3 Futility Quotes By Fernando Pessoa" description: "3 Futility quotes by Fernando Pessoa. Plus more from Fernando Pessoa and more Futility sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/fernando-pessoa-177_awareness_we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-an_657254.jpg" --- > [We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-and-deadliest-drought-in/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/fernando-pessoa-177_awareness_we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-an_657254.jpg) > [“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilization-has-reached-its-height/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/fernando-pessoa-177_futility_there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilizati_2681148.jpg) > [“I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. My awareness that not everything can be seen, not everything read…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/i-m-curious-about-everyone-hungry-for-everything-greedy-for-all-ideas/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3e/fernando-pessoa-177_curiosity_i-m-curious-about-everyone-hungry-for-ev_2685509.jpg) ## Other authors on Futility - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kurt-vonnegut-58049.jpg) Kurt Vonnegut 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/futility/kurt-vonnegut/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-joseph-conrad-53297.jpg) Joseph Conrad 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/futility/joseph-conrad/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b012/author-jean-baudrillard-47950.jpg) Jean Baudrillard 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/futility/jean-baudrillard/) ## More by Fernando Pessoa > [Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/everything-interests-me-but-nothing-holds-me/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/if-only-i-feel-now-if-only-i-could-be-someone-able-to-see-all-this-as/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/what-s-given-in-fact-always-depends-on-the-person-or-thing-it-s-given/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) > [Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/smell-is-a-strange-sight-it-evokes-sentimental-landscapes-through-a/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) > [“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/tudo-vale-a-pena-quando-a-alma-n-o-pequena/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) > [“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/no-nostalgia-hurts-as-much-as-nostalgia-for-things-that-never-existed/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) > [pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/pg-9-in-my-heart-there-s-a-peaceful-anguish-and-my-calm-is-made-of/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/the-feelings-that-hurt-most-the-motions-that-sting-most-are-those/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/i-try-to-say-what-i-feel-without-thinking-about-what-i-feel-i-try-to/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/have-you-ever-considered-beloved-other-how-invisible-we-are-to-each/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/to-associate-is-to-die-only-my-consciousness-of-myself-is-real-for-me/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/when-it-comes-to-dreams-i-m-no-different-from-the-errand-boy-and-the/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/no-intelligent-idea-can-gain-general-acceptance-unless-some-stupidity/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) > [God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/god-gave-the-sea-the-danger-and-the-abyss-but-it-was-in-it-that-he/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/everything-that-surrounds-us-becomes-part-of-us-it-seeps-into-us-with/) [Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/fernando-pessoa/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/futility/fernando-pessoa/#itemlist", "name": "3 Futility Quotes By Fernando Pessoa", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fernando Pessoa" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-and-deadliest-drought-in/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/fernando-pessoa-177_awareness_we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-an_657254.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/fernando-pessoa-177_awareness_we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-an_657254.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6c9/fernando-pessoa-177_awareness_we-ve-been-devastated-by-the-severest-an_657254.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of…” — Fernando Pessoa", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the futility of all effort, given that we’re ruled by implacable laws, which nothing can repeal or obstruct.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Fernando Pessoa" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/fernando-pessoa/there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilization-has-reached-its-height/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/fernando-pessoa-177_futility_there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilizati_2681148.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/fernando-pessoa-177_futility_there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilizati_2681148.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0be/fernando-pessoa-177_futility_there-s-no-better-sign-that-a-civilizati_2681148.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“There’s no better sign that a civilization has reached its height than the awareness, in its members, of the…” — Fernando Pessoa", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“I’m curious about everyone, hungry for everything, greedy for all ideas. 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