Book of disquiet Quote by Fernando Pessoa Download Open image “There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.” — Fernando Pessoa ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book of disquiet Metaphor People Real Streets Walks
Just because something is a metaphor doesn't mean it can't be real. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Metaphors have a way of holding the most truth in the least space. — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“The beauty of a metaphor is it doesn't have to be real to ring true. The instant a metaphor becomes true it ceases to… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“A metaphor is a kind o' lie to help people understand what's true.” — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Those who truly understand their faiths understand the stories are metaphorical. — Dan Brown Copy Share 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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Smell is a strange sight. It evokes sentimental landscapes through a sudden sketching of the subconscious. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“no nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed!” — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
pg.9 "In my heart there's a peaceful anguish, and my calm is made of resignation. — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share 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… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share 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 Copy Share Image
What can I expect from myself? My sensation in all their horrible acuity, and a profound awareness of feeling. A sharp mind that only… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“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,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might seem, is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Freedom is the possibility of isolation. You are free if you can withdraw from people, not having to seek them out for the sake… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
One or another man, liberated or cursed, suddenly sees-but even this man sees rarely-that all we are is what we aren't, that we fool… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“Pessoa invented The Book of Disquiet, which never existed, strictly speaking, and can never exist. What we have here isn’t a book but its… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
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,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“No other writer ever achieved such a direct transference of self to paper. The Book of Disquiet is the world’s strangest photograph, made out… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
