“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other… — 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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’d like to run away, to flee from what I know, from what is mine, from what I love. I want to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Not even by painting my window with colourful dreams can I block out the noise of the life outside, oblivious to my… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I fused the beauty of dreaming and the reality of life into a single blissful colour.. ...On a clear bright day even… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I’ve always wanted to be liked. It grieved me that I was treated with indifference. Left an orphan by Fortune, I wanted—like… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Yes it’s me, I myself, what I turned out to be, (…) I’m the one here in myself, it’s me. (…) Whatever… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Does a flower really have beauty? Does a fruit really have beauty? No: they have only color and form And existence. Beauty… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything, except boredom, bores me. I’d like, without being calm, to calm down, To take life every day Like a medicine— One… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life hurls us like a stone, and we sail through the air saying, "look at me move. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg 9, "The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is the oldest tax levied on the intelligence. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“A tree's shade is worth more than the knowledge of truth, my sons, for a tree's shade is true while it lasts,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Better to write than to dare live, even if living means merely to buy bananas in the sunlight, as long as the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I don’t know if I have a fever, as I feel I do, or if I’ve stopped having the fever of sleeping… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To organize our life in such a way that it becomes a mystery to others, that those who are closest to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.] — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The only thing I feel to be really mine is a huge incapacity, a vast emptiness, an incompetence for everything that is… — 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
