Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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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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A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
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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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I don't believe in the landscape.
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To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
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The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
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O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
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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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And let our despite go to those who work and fight and our hate to those who hope and trust.
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Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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Myth is the nothing that is everything.
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God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
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I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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I never meant to be but a dreamer.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.
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Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
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Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
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Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
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'Any road', said Carlyle, 'even this road to Entepfuhl, will take you to the end of the world'. But the Entepfuhl road, if taken in its entirety, and to the end, goes back to Entepfuhl; so Entepfuhl, where we already were, is that very end of the world we were seeking.