Fernando Pessoa Quotes
-
I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.
-
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.
-
Strength without agility is a mere mass.
-
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.
-
I will be what I want. But I will have to want what I'll be. Success is in having success, not conditions for success.
-
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.
-
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.
-
If we knew the truth, we'd see it; all else is system and outskirts.
-
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.
-
I will necessarily say what it seems to me, given that I'm me.
-
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.
-
To have defined and sure opinions, fixed and known instincts, passions and character - all that is the horror of turning our soul into a fact, materialize it and make it external.
-
Oh Portugal, today you are fog... The Hour has come!
-
I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing.
-
I always live in the present. The future I can't know. The past I no longer have.
-
Irony is the first hint that consciousness became conscious.
-
What would happen to the world if we were human?
-
These are Fortunate Islands, These are lands without a place
-
Não sou nada.Nunca serei nada.Não posso querer ser nada.À parte isso, tenho em mim todos os sonhos do mundo.
-
I never cared about whatever tragic event happened in China. It's faraway decoration, even if in blood and plague.
-
There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.
-
Inside the henhouse from where he will be taken to be killed, the cock sings hymns to liberty because he was given two perches.
-
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.
-
And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.