Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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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.
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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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There's a tiredness of abstract intelligence, and it's the most horrible of tirednesses. It doesn't weight on you like the tiredness of the body, nor does it worry you like the tiredness of knowledge and emotion. It's a weightiness of the conscience of the world, an inability of the soul to breathe.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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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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My head and the universe ache me.
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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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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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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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The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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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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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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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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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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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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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.