People Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.

— Fernando Pessoa

There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.

— Fernando Pessoa

Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.

— Fernando Pessoa

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are…

— Fernando Pessoa

FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough...

— Fernando Pessoa

Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the…

— Fernando Pessoa

I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses…

— Fernando Pessoa

If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of…

— Fernando Pessoa

Talking to people makes me feel like sleeping. Only my ghostly and imaginary friends, only the conversations I have in my dreams,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“De resto, com que posso contar comigo? Uma acuidade horrível das sensações, e a compreensão profunda de estar sentindo... Uma inteligência aguda…

— Fernando Pessoa

I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with…

— Fernando Pessoa

All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever…

— 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

When all by myself, I can think of all kinds of clever remarks, quick comebacks to what no one said, and flashes…

— Fernando Pessoa

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I feel closer ties and more intimate bonds with certain characters in books, with certain images I’ve seen in engravings, than with…

— Fernando Pessoa

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that…

— Fernando Pessoa