Inspirational Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Faithful to the word given and the idea had.

— Fernando Pessoa

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

— Fernando Pessoa

Fraternity has subtleties.

— Fernando Pessoa

All beginnings are involuntary.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

— Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

— Fernando Pessoa

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality.

— Fernando Pessoa

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

— Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

— Fernando Pessoa

Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.

— Fernando Pessoa

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

— Fernando Pessoa

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

— Fernando Pessoa

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

— Fernando Pessoa

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

— 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

“Organizar em perfeito paralelismo a minha vida prática e a minha vida especulativa, de modo a que a primeira nunca possa prejudicar…

— Fernando Pessoa

Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.

— Fernando Pessoa

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we…

— Fernando Pessoa

I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions…

— Fernando Pessoa

Having never discovered qualities in myself that might attract someone else, I could never believe that anyone felt attracted to me.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Convicções profundas só as têm as criaturas superficiais. Os que não reparam para as coisas quase que as veem apenas para não…

— Fernando Pessoa

To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Perhaps he still hopes. If there’s any justice in the Gods’ injustice, then may they let us keep our dreams, even when…

— Fernando Pessoa

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa

My homeland is the portuguese language.

— Fernando Pessoa

It's been a long time since I've been me.

— Fernando Pessoa

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Fernando Pessoa

My curiosity sister of larks.

— Fernando Pessoa

You breathe better when you're rich.

— Fernando Pessoa

Contradiction is the essence of the universe.

— Fernando Pessoa

I never meant to be but a dreamer.

— Fernando Pessoa

Myth is the nothing that is all.

— Fernando Pessoa

My joy is as painful as my pain.

— Fernando Pessoa