Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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My head and the universe ache me.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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I belong to a generation - assuming that this generation includes others besides me - that lost its faith in the gods of the old religions as well as in the gods of modern nonreligions. I reject Jehova as I reject humanity.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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To think is to destroy. The very process of thought indicates it for the same thought, as thinking is decomposing.
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At first I felt dizzy - not with the kind of dizziness that makes the body reel but the kind that's like a dead emptiness in the brain, an instinctive awareness of the void.
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
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Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions.
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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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Being pleased with what they give you is proper of slaves. Asking for more is proper of children. Conquering more is proper of fools.
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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. ... Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations?Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.