Sleep Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

“Sleep is fusion with God, Nirvana, however it be called.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“I want to feel the approach of sleep as if it were a promise of life, not rest.”

— Fernando Pessoa

The essence of what I desire is simply this: to sleep away life.

— Fernando Pessoa

“And now I’m sleepy, because I think – I don’t know why – that the meaning of it all is to sleep.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“Leave in a complex state of slumber Your consciousness of science. Look At your white face in the wine’s red mirror And…

— Fernando Pessoa

If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the…

— Fernando Pessoa

“There’s no sunset so lovely it couldn’t be yet lovelier, no gentle breeze bringing us sleep that couldn’t bring a yet sounder…

— Fernando Pessoa

“At other times I wake up from the half sleep I'd fallen into, and hazy images with poetical and unpredictable colours play…

— Fernando Pessoa

“No, we don’t feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter…

— 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

I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream…

— Fernando Pessoa

I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the…

— Fernando Pessoa

The idea of any social obligation [...] just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since…

— 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

Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us…

— Fernando Pessoa

Silence emerges from the sound of rain and spreads in a crescendo of gray monotony over the narrow street I contemplate. I’m…

— Fernando Pessoa

“167 It’s one of those days when the monotony of everything oppresses me like being thrown into jail. The monotony of everything…

— 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