Let's absurdify life, from east to west. Let us play hide-and-seek with our consciousness of living. — 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
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes. — 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 cultivate hatred of action like a greenhouse flower. I’m proud of myself for dissenting from life.” — 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
“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
But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living? — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective. Nothing passes… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and, like the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share
