Air Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning…

— Fernando Pessoa

I am the suburb of a non-existent town, the prolix commentary on a book never written. I am nobody, nobody. I am a character…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I’m nobody, absolutely nobody. When the lightning…

— Fernando Pessoa

“I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer of my woes—…

— John Clare

“ I Am! I am—yet what I am none cares or knows; My friends forsake me like a memory lost: I am the self-consumer…

— John Clare

“I understood that no one lives forever, but there are certain people whose power and presence so thoroughly penetrate your view of things that…

— Walter Kirn

“When I read a novel I am not here. I am transported to far-off places, my eyes unseeing of the words on the page,…

— Nancy Moser

“I'm nobody, who are you? Are you nobody too?”

— Amy Harmon

“Here, in the vast expanse of nothingness, one confronts the depths of their own existence, unburdened by the trappings of modern life.”

— Ryan Gelpke

“Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.”

— Edwyna Hughes

“Nobody a writer ever loved is dead.”

— Richard Peck

“And what a refreshing and happy horror that there was nobody there! Not even we, who walked there, were there… For we were nobody.…

— Fernando Pessoa