Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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A morte é a curva da estrada,Morrer é só não ser visto.Se escuto, eu te oiço a passadaExistir como eu existo.A terra é feita de céu.A mentira não tem ninho.Nunca ninguém se perdeu.Tudo é verdade e caminho.
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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.
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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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Repudiei sempre que me compreendessem. Ser compreendido é prostituir-se. Prefiro ser tomado a sério como o que não sou, ignorado humanamente, com decência e naturalidade.
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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.
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I reread? I lied! I don't dare to reread. I cannot reread. What's the point, for me, in rereading?
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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I never was but an isolated bon vivant, which is absurd; or a mystic bon vivant, which is an impossible thing.
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Enthusiasm is rude.
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Then a overflowing desire comes to me, absurd, of a sort of satanism before Satan, in that one day ... an escape out of God can be found and the deepest of us stops, I don't know how, to be a part of being or not being.
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We become sphynxes, though fake, up to the point we no longer know who we are.
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Every gesture is a revolutionary act.
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Without madness what is man more than the healthy beast, corpse adjourned that procreates?
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
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Life is a thread that someone entangled.
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Blessed are those who never entrust their life to no one.
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There is no safe standard to tell man from animals.
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It's been a long time since I've been me.
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Since I wasn’t able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
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My homeland is the portuguese language.
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I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
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The superiority of the dreamer is that dreaming is much more practical than living, and that the dreamer extracts from life a much vaster and varied pleasure than the action man. In better and more direct words, the dreamer is the real action man.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.