Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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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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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.
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Some sensations are sleeps that take up all the extent of the mind like a fog, don't let us think, don't let us act, don't let us be clearly.
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I say it because I don't believe.
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I come closer to my desk as to a bulwark against life.
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If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
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Não sou nada.Nunca serei nada.Não posso querer ser nada.À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
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The consciousness of life's unconsciousness is intelligence's oldest tax.
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Sejamos simples e calmos,Como os regatos e as árvores,E Deus amar-nos-á fazendo de nósBelos como as árvores e os regatos,E dar-nos-á verdor na sua primavera,E um rio aonde ir ter quando acabemos...E não nos dará mais nada, porque dar-nos mais seria tirar-nos mais.
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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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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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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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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.
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What is a disease is wishing with an equal intensity what is needed and what is desirable, and suffer for not being perfect as you would suffer for not having bread. The romantic error is this wanting the moon as if there was a way to get it.
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To stagnate in the sun, goldenly, like an obscure lake surrounded by flowers.
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Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.
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In today's life, the world belongs only to the stupid, the insensitive and the agitated. The right to live and triumph is now conquered almost by the same means by which you conquer internment in an asylum: the inability to think, amorality and hiperexcitation.
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Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.
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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?