Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have. — 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
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In me all affections take place on the surface, but sincerely. I've always been an actor, and in earnest. Whenever I've loved,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want… — 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
“Twice in my adolescence – which I feel so remotely it seems like someone else’s story that I read or was told… — 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 never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Between your body and my desire for it Stretches the chasm of you being conscious. If only I could love and possess… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Tobacco Shop’) and compares his thinking to ‘an overturned bucket’ (in a poem dated 16 August 1934). If Soares thinks that ‘Nothing… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To understand, I destroyed myself. To understand is to forget about loving. I know nothing more simultaneously false and telling than the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness – nothing in the heart. I have faith in nothing,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“In sexual love we seek our own pleasure via another body. In non-sexual love, we seek our own pleasure via our own… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it’s not because I know what it… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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 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
