All Fernando Pessoa Quotes
- Action men are the unvoluntary slaves of wise men. Action
- I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner Reality. Inner
- Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. Devoid
- To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived. Create
- What is art but the denial of life? Art
- To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing. Decomposing
- Art consists in making others feel what we feel. Art
- My homeland is the portuguese language. Homeland
- The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity. Absence
- Wasting time has an esthetics to it. Esthetics
- It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended. Ended
- Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. All
- There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to,… Behind
- And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream. Another Kind
- I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city. Cities
- We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the… All
- There's no greater tragedy than an equal intensity, in the same soul or the same man, of the intellectual sentiment and the moral sentiment. For… Absolutely
- I'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to… Arrived
- These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some… Begin
- Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. Action
- I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old… Assuming
- Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do.… Action
- Myth is the nothing that is all. All
- We almost always live outside ourselves, and life itself is a continual dispersion. But it's towards ourselves that we tend, as towards a centre around… Absurd
- Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle. Build