All Fernando Pessoa Quotes
- To live is to be someone else. Feeling is impossible if we feel today as we felt yesterday: to feel today the same thing we… All
- The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and… Intensity
- Every gesture is a revolutionary act. Act
- What Hells and Purgatories and Heavens I have inside of me! But who sees me do anything that disagrees with life--me, so calm and peaceful? Calm
- I Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I,… Alone
- In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate can prevent our personality from… Ability
- What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only destroys… Acuity
- My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing… All
- If I write what I feel, it's to reduce the fever of feeling. What I confess is unimportant, because everything is unimportant. Confess
- what has happened to us has happened to everyone or only us; if to everyone, then it's no novelty, and if only to us, then… Book
- I had the same sensation as when we watch someone sleep. When asleep we all become children again. Perhaps because in the state of slumber… Absorbed
- There's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies… All
- Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is the… Book
- Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly. Affection
- THIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My… Ache
- FIRST WATCHER Why do people die? SECOND WATCHER Perhaps because they don't dream enough... Die
- To live strikes me as a metaphysical mistake of matter, a dereliction of inaction. Dereliction
- But I am not perfect in my way of putting things Because I lack the divine simplicity Of being only what I appear to be. Appear
- To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.) Alone
- After the rains departed the skies and settled on earth - clear skies; moist brilliant earth - greater clarity returned to life alone with the… Alone
- Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that… All
- In the ordinary jumble of my literary drawer, I sometimes find texts I wrote ten, fifteen, or even more years ago. And many of them… Ago
- A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that which, while it… All
- To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into the smallest thing… All
- My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All… All