I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“...of having forgotten the colour of loves and the taste of hatreds. We thought we were immortal.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I’ve always been treated in a friendly manner, and even people I hardly know have rarely been rude or brusque or cold… — 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
“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
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I want you only for my dreams,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare not… — 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
