Love Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me.

— Fernando Pessoa

Fraternity has subtleties.

— Fernando Pessoa

All beginnings are involuntary.

— Fernando Pessoa

Art consists in making others feel what we feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.

— Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

— Fernando Pessoa

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa

Be what I think? But I think of being so many things!

— Fernando Pessoa

It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.

— Fernando Pessoa

“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves.”

— Fernando Pessoa

To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.

— Fernando Pessoa

I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.

— Fernando Pessoa

“...of having forgotten the colour of loves and the taste of hatreds. We thought we were immortal.”

— Fernando Pessoa

I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.

— Fernando Pessoa

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

— Fernando Pessoa

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

“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life…

— Fernando Pessoa

To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.

— Fernando Pessoa

To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To possess something is to lose it. To feel something without possessing it is to keep it, because in that way one…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Between your body and my desire for it Stretches the chasm of you being conscious. If only I could love and possess…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

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

“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

To say! To know how to say! To know how to exist via the written voice and the intellectual image! This is…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I have no philosophy, I have senses . . . If I speak of Nature it’s not because I know what it…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“Two people say ‘I love you’ or mutually think it and feel it, and each has in mind a different idea, a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I feel love for all this, perhaps because I have nothing else to love ... even though nothing truly merits the love…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I want you only for my dreams,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare not…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I want you only to dream of you,’ they tell the beloved woman in verses they never send – they who dare…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Like all men endowed with great mental mobility, I have an irrevocable, organic love of settledness. I abhor new ways of life…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The true danger of romanticism is that the principles through which it rules itself are of such nature that everybody can invoke…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“The fundamental error of Romanticism is to confuse what we need with what we desire. We all need certain basic things for…

— Fernando Pessoa

What is art but the denial of life?

— Fernando Pessoa

It's been a long time since I've been me.

— Fernando Pessoa

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

— Fernando Pessoa

My curiosity sister of larks.

— Fernando Pessoa