“Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search.” — 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
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
“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
There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. — 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“life real. As all of us know, even when we don’t know what we’re doing, life is absolutely unreal in its directly… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Life is what we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an… — 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
“I had come from wondrous lands, from landscapes more enchanting than life, but only to myself did I ever mention these lands,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were… — 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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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’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’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 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
“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
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For superior men, life should be a dream that spurns confrontations.” — 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
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
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
“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
“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
![“The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely…” quote by Fernando Pessoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/277/fernando-pessoa-177_bed_the-principle-tragedy-of-my-life-is-like_2746196.jpg)
