Happiness Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Should you ask me if I'm happy, I'll answer that I'm not.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Everything wearies me, including what doesn't weary me. My happiness is as painful as my pain.”

— Fernando Pessoa

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

— Fernando Pessoa

I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“We hear death in words they speak to express sensual bliss. We read sensuality and life in words they drop from their…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

“To conceive of myself from the outside was my ruin – the ruin of my happiness. I saw myself as others see…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think…

— Fernando Pessoa

“May the Gods all preserve for me (until my present form ceases) this clear and sunlit view of external reality, the instinctive…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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