Fernando PessoaTo have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.371Time
Fernando PessoaAnd leaning out the window, enjoying the day above the varying volume of the entire city, only one thought swells my soul – the intimate will to die, to finish, not to see more li… ▶371DeathThought
Fernando PessoaSer compreendido é prostituir-se. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2015). ABC de Fernando Pessoa, p.16, Leya361Reflection
Fernando PessoaIf, on thinking this, I look up to see if reality can quench my thirst, I see inexpressive facades, inexpressive faces, inexpressive gestures. Stones, bodies, ideas - all dead. Al… ▶373DeathSadnessThought
Fernando PessoaTo know how to think with emotions and to feel with intellect.362Thought
Fernando PessoaMy boredom with everything has numbed me. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2002). The Book of Disquiet, p.172, Penguin UK362Reading
Fernando PessoaThere's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness362Thought
Fernando PessoaI sometimes think that I enjoy suffering. But the truth is I would prefer something else. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2010). The Book of Disquiet, p.190, Profile Books352ReadingThoughtTime
Fernando PessoaLife is an experimental journey undertaken involuntarily. It is a journey of the spirit through the material world and, since it is the spirit that travels, it is the spirit that … ▶341LifeThought
Fernando PessoaI enjoy wording. Words for me are tangible bodies, visible sirens, incarnate sensualities. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limi… ▶342DeathReading
Fernando PessoaEverything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.342Reading
Fernando PessoaIn order to understand, I destroyed myself. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa (p. 73), 2006.342ReadingTruth
Fernando PessoaStones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.331Love
Fernando PessoaTHIRD WATCHER Let her speak. Don't interrupt. She knows words that mermaids taught her...I'm falling asleep in order to hear her...Go on, sister, go on...My heart aches because I … ▶375Love
Fernando PessoaLife is whatever we conceive it to be. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carcanet Press Limited331LifeReading
Fernando PessoaI look at myself but I'm missing. I know myself: it’s not me.342Thought
Fernando PessoaDecadence is the total loss of unconsciousness, which is the very basis of life. Could it think, the heart would stop beating. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose o… ▶342LifeLoveThought
Fernando PessoaEverything stated or expressed by man is a note in the margin of a completely erased text. From what's in the note we can extract the gist of what must have been in the text, but … ▶331PhilosophyPoliticsReading
Fernando PessoaLa literatura es la manera más agradable de ignorar la vida. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2017). Toda la gente que conozco, p.177, Editorial Verbum321Life
Fernando PessoaWise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.343Reading
Fernando PessoaI Know, I Alone I know, I alone How much it hurts, this heart With no faith nor law Nor melody nor thought. Only I, only I And none of this can I say Because feeling is like the s… ▶343HopeLovePolitics
Fernando PessoaI seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (1996). The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistan… ▶354Reading
Fernando PessoaCould it think, the heart would stop beating. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.319, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.343LoveThought
Fernando PessoaAttention to detail and a perfectionist instinct, far from stimulating action, are character qualities that lead to renunciation. Better to dream than to be. ✨ Fernando Pess… ▶343Love
Fernando PessoaI'm going to end a life that I thought could contain every kind of greatness but that in fact consisted only of my incapacity to really want to be great. Whenever I arrived at a c… ▶321LifeThoughtTruth
Fernando PessoaTo narrate is to create, for living is just being lived. ✨ A Factless Autobiography. Book by Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith Edition, Lisbon, 2006.343LifeReadingTruth
Fernando PessoaWhenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream. ✨ Fernando Pessoa, Richard Zenith (1996). Book of Disquietude, Carca… ▶311Reading
Fernando PessoaI never had anyone I could call “Master”. No Christ died for me. No Buddha showed me the right path. In the depths of my dreams no Apollo or Athena appeared to me to enlighten my … ▶355DeathReading
Fernando PessoaThere are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist. ✨ Fernando Pessoa (2007). The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa, p.282, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.377Humanity
Fernando PessoaThere's something vile (and all the more vile because ridiculous) in the tendency of feeble men to make universal tragedies out of the sad comedies of their private woes. ✨ … ▶355DeathSadness
