“No-one loves another More than he loves whatever another within may have That is part of one's self” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Since we can't extract beauty from life, let's at least try to extract beauty from not being able to extract beauty from… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? — 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
“Life is whatever we make it. The traveller is the journey. What we see is not what we see but who we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some have a great dream in life that they never accomplish. Others have no dream, and likewise never accomplish it.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In modern life the world belongs to the stupid, the insensitive and the disturbed. The right to live and triumph is today… — 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
“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams together into one continuous life, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Why should I care that no one reads what I write? I write to forget about life, and I publish because that’s… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let's sit down here. From here we can see more of the sky. The vast expanse of these starry heights is soothing.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“O que parece haver de desprezo entre homem e homem, de indiferente que permite que se mate gente sem que se sinta… — 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
“VII From my village I see as much of the universe as can be seen from the earth, And so my village… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in… — 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
“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
“As with all tragedies, the real tragedy of my life is just an irony of Fate. I reject life because it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the novel is a more perfect life and reality, which God creates through us. Perhaps we live only to create it.… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“My whole life has been a battle lost on the map. Cowardice didn't even make it to the battlefield, where perhaps it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I see life as a roadside inn where I have to stay until the coach from the abyss pulls up. I don't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Music soothes, the visual arts exhilarates, the performing… — 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
“I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with… — 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
