Ifs Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa

If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.

— Fernando Pessoa

If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.

— Fernando Pessoa

“what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know…

— Fernando Pessoa

I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.

— Fernando Pessoa

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

— Fernando Pessoa

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its…

— Fernando Pessoa

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a…

— Fernando Pessoa

What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being…

— Fernando Pessoa

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver…

— Fernando Pessoa

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that…

— Fernando Pessoa

If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and…

— Fernando Pessoa

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear…

— Fernando Pessoa