Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Explore a curated collection of 30 quotes by Fernando Pessoa. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgetta — Fernando Pessoa
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things — Fernando Pessoa
We, all who live, haveA life that is livedAnd another life that is thought,And the only life we haveIt's the one that is — Fernando Pessoa
I am nothing.I'll never be anything.I couldn't want to be something.Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the — Fernando Pessoa
In this metallic age of barbarians, only a relentless cultivation of our ability to dream, to analyse and to captivate c — Fernando Pessoa
The only thing I’ve loved is nothing at all. The only thing I’ve desired is what I couldn’t even imagine. All I asked of — Fernando Pessoa
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it — Fernando Pessoa
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates. — Fernando Pessoa
The rustic, the reader of novels, the pure ascetic: these three are truly happy men — Fernando Pessoa
If the heart could think it would stop beating. — Fernando Pessoa
The only way to survive in this world is by keeping alive our dream, without ever fulfilling it, since the fulfilment ne — Fernando Pessoa
Children are particularly literary, for they say what they feel not what someone has taught them to feel. — Fernando Pessoa
The poet is a faker / Who's so good at his act / He even fakes the pain / Of pain he feels in fact. — Fernando Pessoa
everything is absurd.1 man spends his life earning money which he then saves even though he has no children 2 leave it 2 — Fernando Pessoa
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imagina — Fernando Pessoa
I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having wai — Fernando Pessoa
All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really — Fernando Pessoa
Great mysteries inhabit the threshold of my being. — Fernando Pessoa
I'll be living quietly in a house somewhere in the suburbs, enjoying a peaceful existence not writing the book I'm not w — Fernando Pessoa
All letters of love are Ridiculous. They wouldn’t be love letters if they were not Ridiculous. — Fernando Pessoa