Fernando Pessoa

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

— Fernando Pessoa

“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other…

— Fernando Pessoa

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the…

— Fernando Pessoa

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

— Fernando Pessoa

“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

— Fernando Pessoa

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

— Fernando Pessoa

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my…

— Fernando Pessoa

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen…

— Fernando Pessoa

“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness,…

— Fernando Pessoa

“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from…

— Fernando Pessoa

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Collective thought is stupid because it’s collective.…

— Fernando Pessoa

God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Everything that surrounds us becomes part of us, it seeps into us with every experience of the flesh and of life and,…

— 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

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

— 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

I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.

— Fernando Pessoa

“Each of us is several, is many, is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not…

— Fernando Pessoa

“What matters is to be natural and calm In happiness and in unhappiness, To feel as if feeling were seeing, To think…

— Fernando Pessoa

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

— Fernando Pessoa

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all.…

— 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

We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in…

— Fernando Pessoa