I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all.… — 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
I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets? — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Everything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the… — 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
There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. — 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
