Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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Clear in thinking, and clear in feeling, and clear in wanting
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Todo o homem que merece ser célebre sabe que não vale a pena sê-lo.
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My curiosity sister of larks.
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I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.
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God wills, man dreams, the work is born.
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To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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My life is as if you've hit me with it.
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If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with it, I'll answer: what's your liver? It's a dead thing that lives as long as you live, and the poems you'll write will live without a as long as.
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Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.
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All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
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To narrate is to create, for living is just being lived.
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Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
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To be understood is to prostitute yourself.
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The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.
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All problems are unsolvable. The essence of the existence of a problem is that there is no solution. Looking for a fact means there is no fact. To think is not to know how to be.
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O meu coração é um pouco maior que o universo inteiro.
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Common man, no matter how hard life is to him, at least has the fortune of not thinking it.
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We are two abysses - a well staring at the sky.
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To act is to rest.
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Sailing is necessary, living is not necessary.
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His livid face is a bewildered false green. I notice it, between the chest's hard air, with the fraternity of knowing I will also be so.