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
“Life, as I know it, is cataclysms and apocalypses. With each passing day I feel that much more incompetent even to trace… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Two people say ‘I love you’ or mutually think it and feel it, and each has in mind a different idea, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Whenever my ambition, influenced by my dreams, raised up above the everyday level of my life, so that for a moment I… — 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
Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a… — 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
If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is… — 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
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Normality is like a home to us and everyday life a mother. After a long incursion into great poetry, into the mountains… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke… — 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
“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 literature is an attempt to make life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t act on what we… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When I consider, with all the clarity I can muster, what my life has apparently been, I imagine it as some brightly… — 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
“Most people are afflicted with an inability to say what they see or think. They say there’s nothing more difficult than to… — 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
“Literature simulates life. A novel is a story of what never was, and a play is a novel without narration. A poem… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I've never done anything but dream. This, and this alone, has been the meaning of my life. My only real concern has… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is… — 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
All of this passes, and none of it means anything to me.It's all foreign to my fate, and even to fate as… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If men knew how to meditate on the mystery of life, if they knew how to feel the thousand complexities which spy… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I asked for very little from life, and even this little was denied me. A nearby field, a ray of sunlight, a… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“How is it done? By not doing. By dreaming insistently. By performing our daily duties but living, simultaneously, in the imagination. Travelling… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ve always felt that virtue lies in obtaining what is out of one’s reach, in living where one isn’t, in being more… — 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
