“What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To conceive of myself from the outside was my ruin – the ruin of my happiness. I saw myself as others see… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Calm because I’m unknown, And myself because I’m calm, I want to fill my days With wanting nothing from them. For those… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feeling of pain resembles the anguished, troubled height of convulsions, and suffering-the long and the slow kind-has the intimate yellow which… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything wearies me, including what doesn't weary me. My happiness is as painful as my pain.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We hear death in words they speak to express sensual bliss. We read sensuality and life in words they drop from their… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Every man of action is basically cheerful and optimistic, because those who don’t feel are happy. You can spot a man of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The buyers of useless things are wiser than is commonly supposed--they buy little dreams. They become children in the act of acquisition.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad. — 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
