Fernando Pessoa Quotes
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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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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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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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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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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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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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I'm all those things, even though I don't want to, in the confuse depth of my fatal sensibility.
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I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
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Art consists in making others feel what we feel.
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My dreams are a stupid refuge, like an umbrella against a thunderbolt.
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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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Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.
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I exempt you of being present in my idea of you.
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What, I believe, produces in me the deep feeling, in which I live, of incongruity with others, is that most think with sensitivity, while I feel with thought.
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The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.
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They were two and beautiful and wanted to be something else; love delayed itself to them in the tedium of the future, and regret of what would happen to be was already being the daughter of the love they hadn't had.
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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 beauty of a naked body is felt only by the dressed races.
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Knowing not to have illusions is absolutely necessary in order to have dreams.
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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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'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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A literatura é a maneira mais agradável de ignorar a vida.
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Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.