Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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What's most worthless about dreams is that everybody has them.
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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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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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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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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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Fingir é conhecer-se.
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Not pleasure, not glory, not power: freedom, only freedom.
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My joy is as painful as my pain.
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Pity him who lives at homeHappy with his life,Without a dream, a flexing of wings,To make him relinquishEven the warmest ember of his hearth!Pity him who is happy!He lives because life lasts.Nothing within him whispersMore than the primeval law:That life leads to the grave.
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Nature is the difference between the soul and God.
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It's in an inland sea that the river of my life ended.
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Yes, talking to people makes me sleepy.
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My head and the universe ache me.
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Whether or not they exist, we're slaves to the gods.
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We’ve been devastated by the severest and deadliest drought in history – that of our profound awareness of the futility of all effort and the vanity of all plans.
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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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What is art but the denial of life?
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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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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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The house clock, place certain there at the bottom of things, strikes the half hour dry and null. All is so much, all is so deep, all is so dark and cold!
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I don't believe in the landscape.
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Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
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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.