Able Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.” quote by Fernando Pessoa — Download Open image

“Man shouldn't be able to see his own face. That's what's most terrible. Nature gave him the possibility of not seeing it, as well as the incapacity of not seeing his own eyes.”

Fernando Pessoa

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Able Eye Faces Incapacity Men Mirrors Nature Possibility Seeing Terrible Wells

More by Fernando Pessoa

Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“If only, I feel now, if only I could be someone able to see all this as if he had no other relation with it than that of seeing it, someone able to observe everything as if he were an adult traveler newly arrived today on the surface of life! If only one had not learned, from birth onwards, to…

Fernando Pessoa

What's given, in fact, always depends on the person or thing it's given to. A minor incident in the street brings the cook to the door and entertains him more than I would be entertained by contemplating the most original idea, by reading the greatest book, or by having the most gratifying of useless dreams. If life is basically monotony,…

Fernando Pessoa

Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious.

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“Tudo vale a pena quando a alma não é pequena”

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!”

Fernando Pessoa

Image

pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation.

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“The feelings that hurt most, the motions that sting most, are those that are absurd; the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul's consciousness create in us a painful…

Fernando Pessoa

“I try to say what I feel Without thinking about what I feel. I try to place words right next to my idea So…

Fernando Pessoa

Image

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each…

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“To associate is to die. Only my consciousness of myself is real for me; other people are hazy phenomena in this consciousness, and it…

Fernando Pessoa

Image

“When it comes to dreams, I’m no different from the errand boy and the seamstress. The only thing that distinguishes me from them is…

Fernando Pessoa

Image

Explore all 781 Fernando Pessoa quotes

More Able quotes

I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,…

Jacques Lusseyran

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

Frederick Douglass

There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,…

Alice Englert

Image

In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any…

Huey Lewis

Image

I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.

Nas

I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and…

Anthony Jeselnik

Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be able to hit with everybody yelling at him. He had to block all that out, block out everything but this ball that is coming in at a hundred miles an hour and he's got a split…

Pee Wee Reese

I wanted to remember in order to be able to return.

Anais Nin

Image

Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which…

Greg Perry