Fernando Pessoa Quotes
-
Attention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be.
-
O poeta é um fingidor.Finge tão completamenteQue chega a fingir que é dorA dor que deveras sente.
-
Art lies because it's social.
-
Our problem isn't that we're individualists. It's that our individualism is static rather than dynamic. We value what we think rather than what we do. We forget that we haven't done, or been, what we thought; that the first function of life is action, just as the first property of things is motion.
-
These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.
-
Destiny gave me only two things: a few accounting books and the gift of dreaming.
-
To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.
-
O amor é que é essencial.O sexo é só um acidente.
-
The sea is fulfilled, and the Empire fell apart. Lord, Portugal must yet fulfill itself!
-
God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.
-
A tedium that includes only the anticipation of more tedium; the regret, now, of tomorrow regretting having regretted today.
-
I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
-
A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
-
Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
-
I never meant to be but a dreamer.
-
I say it because I don't believe.
-
Who am I to myself? Just a feeling of mine.
-
Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
-
Who doesn't feel commands. He who only thinks what is required in order to win, wins.
-
Não tenho ambições nem desejosSer poeta não é uma ambição minhaÉ a minha maneira de estar sozinho.
-
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.
-
Myth is the nothing that is everything.
-
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.
-
In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.