“I was a poet animated by philosophy, not a philosopher with poetic faculties.”
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
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Famous Fernando Pessoa Quotes
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Book of Disquiet
“I don't believe in the landscape.”
Source: Book of Disquietude
“Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.”
“Art lies because it's social.”
Source: The book of disquiet: a selection
“Against destiny I fulfilled my duty. Uselessly? No, for I fulfilled it.”
“Every man who deserves to be famous knows it is not worth the trouble.”
“I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom.”
“I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“God gave the sea the danger and the abyss, but it was in it that He mirrored the sky.”
“If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.”
Source: Book of Disquietude
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.”
Source: The Book of Disquiet
Source: The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
“There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.”
Source: The Book of Disquietude: By Bernardo Soares, Assistant Bookkeeper in the City of Lisbon
“Oh salty sea, how much of your salt Is tears from Portugal?”
“I know not what tomorrow will bring.”
Source: A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems
“There's no regret more painful than the regret of things that never were.”
“Given that we cannot know all the elements in a problem, we never can solve it.”
“Having touched Christ's feet is not an excuse for punctuation mistakes.”