All Fernando Pessoa Quotes
- 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 who's seeking me.… Banished
- I don't believe in the landscape. Belief
- Fraternity has subtleties. Fraternity
- Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells. Cells
- My curiosity sister of larks. Curiosity
- Art lies because it's social. Art
- Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it. Destiny
- Your poems are of interest to mankind; your liver isn't. Drink till you write well and feel sick. Bless your poems and be damned to… Bless
- Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine. Ego
- Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble. Deserve
- I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. Boredom
- 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. Dear vegetables! All
- I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last… Affection
- I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by. Formless
- My joy is as painful as my pain. Inspirational
- I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself. Inspirational
- God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky. Abyss
- Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as… Able
- You breathe better when you're rich. Better
- The poet is a pretender. / He pretends so completely, / that he even pretends that it is pain / the pain he really feels. Completely
- For I am the size of what I see / not my height's size. Height
- Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. Evoke
- Solitude desolates me; company oppresses me. Company
- If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave. Alone
- I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success. Conditions