“The scholiast who annotated Virgil was wrong. Understanding is what wearies us most of all. To live is to not think.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
All pleasure is a vice, for seeking pleasure is what everybody does in life, and the only dark vice is doing what… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. — 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
“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
“Through rational thought I can recognize that a man is a living being just like me, but for my true, involuntary self… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Let us give up the illusion of hope, which betrays; of love, which wearies; of life, which surfeits but never satisfies; and… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Some people have big dreams in life which they never fulfill. Others don't have any dreams in life, and they don't fulfill… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me. It’s all foreign to my fate, and even to fate… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I also have my crochet. It dates from when I began to think. Stitch on stitch forming a whole without a whole… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“We hear death in words they speak to express sensual bliss. We read sensuality and life in words they drop from their… — 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
“But thank God there's imperfection in the World, Since imperfection is a thing, And the existence of mistaken People is original, And… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we… — 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
“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans… — 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
Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full… — 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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Masquerades disclose the reality of souls. As long as no one sees who we are, we can tell the most intimate details… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“167 It’s one of those days when the monotony of everything oppresses me like being thrown into jail. The monotony of everything… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have a very simple morality: not to do good or evil to anyone. Not to do evil, because it seems only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I hesitate in everything, often without knowing why. How often I've sought – as my own version of the straight line, seeing… — 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
“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
And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“What are ideals but an admission that life is worthless? What is art but the negation of life?” — 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
