Spirituality 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

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

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

— 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

“My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments with fiddle-strings & harps, drums & tambourines, I sound & clash…

— 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

“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

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

“I suppose I'm what they call a decadent, one whose spirit is outwardly defined by those sad glimmers of artificial eccentricity that…

— 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

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

— 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

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

— 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

“In these considerations there may be an entire philosophy for someone with the strength to draw conclusions. It won’t be me. Lucid…

— 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

“If our life were an eternal standing by the window, if we could remain there forever, like hovering smoke, with the same…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I lived inscrutable hours, a succession of disconnected moments, in my night-time walk to the lonely shore of the sea. All the…

— 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

“All of life’s unpleasant experiences – when we make fools of ourselves, act thoughtlessly, or lapse in our observance of some virtue…

— Fernando Pessoa

“There are times when everything wearies us, including what we would normally find restful. Wearisome things weary us by definition, restful things…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The endless procession of people and things that forms the world is for me an interminable gallery of pictures whose content bores…

— Fernando Pessoa

“For everything that exists I feel a visual affection, an intellectual fondness – nothing in the heart. I have faith in nothing,…

— Fernando Pessoa

Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full…

— Fernando Pessoa

Tomorrow I too - this feeling and thinking soul, the universe I am to myself - yes, tomorrow I too will be…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The entire life of the human soul is mere motions in the shadows. We live in a twilight of consciousness, never in…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves…

— Fernando Pessoa