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 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
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
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 don't complain about the horror of life; I complain about the horror of my life. The only fact I worry about… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the… — 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
“Revolutionary or reformer – the error is the same. Unable to dominate and reform his own attitude towards life, which is everything,… — 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
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
“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
“Everything we do, in art or in life, is the imperfect copy of what we thought of doing.” — 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
“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
