All Fernando Pessoa Quotes
- Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are. Inspirational
- All that I've lived I've forgotten, as if I'd vaguely heard it. All that I'll be reminds me of nothing, as if I'd lived and… All
- Everything is theater. Funny
- It's been months since I last wrote. I've lived in a state of mental slumber, leading the life of someone else. I've felt, very often,… Been
- Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns. Full
- We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect. Humanity
- I don't mourn the loss of my childhood; I mourn because everything, including (my) childhood, is lost. Childhood
- Everything I sought in life I abandoned for the sake of the search. I'm like one who absentmindedly looks for he doesn't know what, having… Abandoned
- My boredom with everything has numbed me. Boredom
- I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything. Everythingness
- Today I suddenly experienced an absurd but quite valid sensation. I realized, in an intimate lightning flash, that I am no one. No one, absolutely… Absolutely
- If this be to have sense, if to be awake Be but to see this bright, great sleep of things, For the rarer potion mine… Awake
- I am the escaped one, After I was born They locked me up inside me But I left. My soul seeks me, Through hills and… Born
- The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are… Absurd
- I sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. Enjoy
- Once we're able to see this world as an illusion and a phantasm, then we can see everything that happens to us as a dream,… Able
- At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness… Awareness
- In order to understand, I destroyed myself. Destroyed
- There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. All
- Giving importance to what we think because we thought it, taking our own selves not only (to quote the Greek philosopher) as the measure of… All
- …to know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect… Emotion
- I walk along a street and see in the faces of the passersby not the expression they really have but the expression they would have… Abnormality
- And I have the others in me. Even when I’m far away from them, I am forced to live with them. Even when I’m all… All
- Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to… All
- And leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate… Any