All Fernando Pessoa Quotes
- For valuing your own suffering sets on it the gold of a sun of pride. Suffering a lot can originate the illusion of being the… Chosen
- To think is to destroy. Destroy
- The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so… All
- Contradiction is the essence of the universe. Contradiction
- Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul. Each
- Faithful to the word given and the idea had. Faithful
- When I write, I solemnly visit myself. Funny
- Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want. Ah
- No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it. Acceptance
- Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. Chocolate
- Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's… Any
- To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life. Acting
- To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of… Corpse
- There are ships sailing to many ports, but not a single one goes where life is not painful. Goes
- To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet. Every Opinion
- Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life. Agreeable
- ...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad. Blissful
- I'm astounded whenever I finish something. Astounded and distressed. My perfectionist instinct should inhibit me from finishing: it should inhibit me from even beginning. But… Achieve
- Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave… Birth
- Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the same as the… Colony
- Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Funny
- I've always rejected being understood. To be understood is to prostitute oneself. I prefer to be taken seriously for what I'm not, remaining humanly unknown,… All
- My hapless peers with their lofty dreams--how I envy and despise them! I'm with the others, the even more hapless, who have no-one but themselves… Beside
- My past is everything I failed to be. Failed
- We all have two lives: The true, the one we dreamed of in childhood And go on dreaming of as adults in a substratum of… Adults