I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
We live by action—by acting on desire. Those of us who don't know how to want—whether geniuses or beggars—are related by impotence. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
If after I die, people want to write my biography, there is nothing simpler. They only need two dates: the date of… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I want to be a work of art, at least in my soul, since I can’t be one in my body. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I crave time in all its duration, and I want to be myself unconditionally. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
