Time Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Wasting time has an esthetics to it.

— Fernando Pessoa

My past is everything I failed to be.

— Fernando Pessoa

I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

— Fernando Pessoa

I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.

— Fernando Pessoa

It's been a long time since I've been me.

— Fernando Pessoa

I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.

— Fernando Pessoa

I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally.

— 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

Nostalgia! I feel it even for someone who meant nothing to me, out of anxiety for the flight of time and a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The sweetness of the past? Our memory of it, since to remember it is to make it present, and it isn't present…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When it takes place, the dreaded encounter is utterly insignificant, justifying none of my anxiety, but the next time is no different:…

— Fernando Pessoa

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I, however, who in this transitory life am nothing, can enjoy the thought of the future reading this very page, since I…

— 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

I realize that I was all error and deviation, that I never lived, that I existed only in so far as I…

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“It was just a moment, and I saw myself. I can no longer even say what I was. And now I’m sleepy,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“It sometimes occurs to me, with sad delight, that if one day (in a future I won’t be part of) the sentences…

— Fernando Pessoa

I have at this moment so many fundamental thoughts, so many truly metaphysical things to say, that I suddenly get tired and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“How many things that we consider right or true are merely the vestiges of our dreams, the sleepwalking figures of our incomprehension!…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I’d woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist. I paced from one side of the room…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I should explain that I really did travel, but everything smacks to me of merely telling myself that I travelled, although I…

— 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

For a long time now I haven't existed. I'm utterly calm. No one distinguishes me from who I am. I just felt…

— Fernando Pessoa

“And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I dreamily and digestively drowse. I have time, between synaesthesias. And it's extraordinary to think that, if I were asked right now…

— 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

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

— Fernando Pessoa

“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I’ve witnessed, incognito, the gradual collapse of my life, the slow foundering of all I wanted to be. I can say, with…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I don’t know if I have a fever, as I feel I do, or if I’ve stopped having the fever of sleeping…

— Fernando Pessoa

“There are moments, such as the one that oppresses me now, when I feel my own self far more than I feel…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I placidly wait for what I don't know- My future and the future of everything. In the end there will only be…

— 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

“I wander as I walk straight ahead. When it’s time, I show up at the office like everyone else. When it’s not…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I love you the way I love the sunset or the moonlight: I want the moment to remain, but all I want…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When…

— Fernando Pessoa

There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and…

— Fernando Pessoa

“And leaning on the windowsill to enjoy the day, gazing at the variegated mass of the whole city, just one thought fills…

— Fernando Pessoa