Soul Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.

— Fernando Pessoa

The human soul is an abyss

— Fernando Pessoa

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

— Fernando Pessoa

Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa

All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.

— Fernando Pessoa

I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body.

— Fernando Pessoa

“But do my words ring in anyone else’s soul? Does anyone hear them besides me?”

— Fernando Pessoa

In the very corner of my soul there is an altar to a different god.

— Fernando Pessoa

Give to each emotion a personality, to each state of mind a soul.

— Fernando Pessoa

And, like the great damned souls, I shall always feel that thinking is worth more than living.

— Fernando Pessoa

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

I never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the…

— Fernando Pessoa

To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our…

— Fernando Pessoa

My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I'd like to write the encomium of a new incoherence that could serve as the negative charter for the new anarchy of…

— Fernando Pessoa

I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me,…

— Fernando Pessoa

I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an…

— Fernando Pessoa

I look for myself but find no one. I belong to the chrysanthemum hour of bright flowers placed in tall vases. I…

— Fernando Pessoa

I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

There's a tiredness of abstract inteligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of…

— Fernando Pessoa

And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul…

— Fernando Pessoa

The abstract intelligence produces a fatigue that's the worst of all fatigues. It doesn't weigh on us like bodily fatigue, nor disconcert…

— Fernando Pessoa

My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My soul is a black maelstrom, a great madness spinning about a vacuum, the swirling of a vast ocean around a hole…

— Fernando Pessoa

After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life…

— Fernando Pessoa

And I, who timidly hate life, fear death with fascination. I fear this nothingness that could be something else, and I fear…

— Fernando Pessoa

If, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive…

— Fernando Pessoa

“And with a relentlessness that comes from the world's depths, with a persistence that strikes the keys metaphysically, the scales of a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Life is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is…

— Fernando Pessoa

We may know that the work we continue to put off doing will be bad. Worse, however, is the work we never…

— Fernando Pessoa

My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My soul is like a hidden orchestra; I do not know which instruments grind and play away inside of me, strings and…

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know…

— Fernando Pessoa

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The only tolerable form of communication is the written word, since it isn't a stone in a…

— Fernando Pessoa

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

— Fernando Pessoa

But my sadness is comforting Because it’s right and natural And because it’s what the soul should feel When it already thinks…

— Fernando Pessoa

To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's…

— Fernando Pessoa

Sadly I write in my quiet room, alone as I have always been, alone as I will always be. And I wonder…

— Fernando Pessoa

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing,…

— Fernando Pessoa