Fernando-pessoa Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected promptitude. “A shadow is real, but it’s less…

— Álvaro de Campos

“No, we don’t feel anything. We consciously pass through the door we have to enter, and the fact we have to enter it is…

— Fernando Pessoa

“The creation of something complete and whole, be it good or bad – and if it’s never entirely good, it’s very often not all…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Then, as if they were wind-blown clouds, all of the ideas in which we’ve felt life and all the ambitions and plans on which…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I’ll disappear in the fog as a foreigner to all life, as a human island detached from the dream of the sea, as a…

— Fernando Pessoa

“My dreams are a stupid shelter, like an umbrella against lightning.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“«És o que falta a tudo. És o que a cada coisa falta para a podermos amar sempre.»”

— Fernando Pessoa

“12. Se escrevo o que sinto é porque assim diminuo a febre de sentir. O que confesso não tem importância, pois nada tem importância…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Yes, my particular virtue of being very often objective, and thus sidetracked from thinking about myself, suffers lapses of affirmation, as do all virtues…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Três vezes do leme as mãos ergueu, Três vezes ao leme as reprendeu, E disse no fim de tremer três vezes: «Aqui ao leme…

— Fernando Pessoa