916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

I am still obsessed with creating a false world, and will be until I die.

La maggior parte delle persone si ammala per non saper esprimere quello che vede e quello che pensa.

A ship may seem to be an object whose purpose is to sail, but no, its purpose is to reach a port.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be. For the farmer who considers his field to be everything, the field is an empire. For a Caesar whose empire is still not enough, the empire is a field. The poor man possesses an empire, the great man a field. All that we truly possess are our own sensations; it is in them, rather than in what they sense, that we must base our life’s reality.

We adore perfection because we can't have it; it would disgust us if we had it. Perfect is inhuman, because human is imperfect.

Our personality should be impenetrable even to ourselves.

There's a non-existent peace in the uncertain quietness.