Fernando Pessoa
Look, there's no metaphysics on earth like chocolates.Collection: Valentines
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
To feel today what one felt yesterday isn't to feel - it's to remember today what was felt yesterday, to be today's living corpse of what yesterday was lived and lost.
Could it think, the heart would stop beating.
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
To choose ways of not acting was ever the concern and scruple of my life.
The value of things is not the time they last, but the intensity with which they occur. That is why there are unforgettable moments and unique people!Collection: Unique
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.Collection: Life Is
The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.Collection: Hope
Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.Collection: One Day
There is a time when it is necessary to abandon the used clothes, which already have the shape of our body and to forget our paths, which takes us always to the same places. This is the time to cross the river: and if we don't dare to do it, we will have stayed, forever beneath ourselvesCollection: Time
I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.Collection: Reality
To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.Collection: Fashion
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 world.Collection: Dream
If you cannot live alone, you were born a slave.Collection: Solitude
I bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.Collection: Battle
Everything is worthwhile if the soul is not small.Collection: Soul
There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn’t exist.Collection: People
The human soul is an abyssCollection: Soul
I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.Collection: Space
We never love anyone. What we love is the idea we have of someone. It's our own concept—our own selves—that we love.Collection: Love Is
For who expects nothing, all that comes is gratefulCollection: Grateful
Art consists in making others feel what we feel.Collection: Art
My soul is a hidden orchestra; I know not what instruments, what fiddlestrings and harps, drums and tamboura I sound and clash inside myself. All I hear is the symphony.Collection: Symphony
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing. Be whole in everything.Collection: Whole
Life is full of paradoxes, as roses are of thorns.Collection: Rose
There are metaphors more real than the people who walk in the street.Collection: Real
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.Collection: Dream
Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.Collection: Heart
As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.Collection: Life Changing
To kill our dream life would be to kill ourselves, to mutilate our soul. Dreaming is the one thing we have that's really ours, invulnerably and inalterably ours.Collection: Dream
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I continuously feel that I was someone else, that I felt something else, that I thought something else. What I'm attending here is a show with another set. And the show I'm attending is myself.Collection: Memories
Between me and life is a faint glass. No matter how sharply I see and understand life, I cannot touch it.Collection: Glasses
I’ve dreamed a lot. I’m tired now from dreaming but not tired of dreaming. No one tires of dreaming, because to dream is to forget, and forgetting does not weigh on us, it is a dreamless sleep throughout which we remain awake. In dreams I have achieved everything.Collection: Dream
Ah, who will save me from existing? It's neither death nor life that I want.Collection: Want
I pass times, I pass silences, formless worlds pass me by.Collection: Journey
There’s enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.Collection: Thinking
We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.Collection: Perfection
To need to dominate others is to need others. The commander is dependent.Collection: Needs
The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.Collection: Men
My joy is as painful as my pain.Collection: Pain
I realize that, while often happy and often cheerful, I am always sad.Collection: Cheerful
Writing is like paying myself a formal visit.Collection: Writing
Being tired of all illusions and of everything about illusions – the loss of illusions, the uselessness of having them, the prefatigue of having to have them in order to lose them, the sadness of having had them, the intellectual shame of having had them knowing that they would have to end this way.Collection: Tired
One never lives so intensely as when one has been thinking hard.Collection: Thinking
I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.Collection: Past
Every day things happen in the world that cannot be explained by any law of things we know. Every day they're mentioned and forgotten, and the same mystery that brought them takes them away, transforming their secret into oblivion. Such is the law by which things that can't be explained must be forgotten. The visible world goes on as usual in the broad daylight. Otherness watches us from the shadows.Collection: Law