916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

To reduce sensation to a science, to make psychological analysis into a microscopically precise method - that's the goal that occupies, like a steady thirst, the hub of my life's will.

I forget. I don't see. I don't think.

Today, suddenly, I reached an absurd but unerring conclusion. In a moment of enlightenment, I realized that I'm nobody, absolutely nobody.

I have enough money to buy food and drink, I have somewhere to live and enough free time in which to dream, write - and sleep - what more can I ask of the gods or hope for from fate? I had great ambitions and extravagant dreams, but so did the errand boy and the seamstress, for everyone has dreams; the only difference is the whether or not we have the strength to fulfil them or a destiny that will fulfil them through us.

Hablar es tener demasiada consideración por los demás. Por la boca mueren los peces y Oscar Wilde.

This world is for those who are born to conquer it, Not for those who dream that are able to conquer it, even if they're right.

Ah, what a morning this is, awakening me to life's stupidity. [98 - Zenith trans.]

Credo, ideal, mulher ou profissão - tudo isso é a cela e as algemas.

Have you ever considered, beloved other, how invisible we are to each other? We look at each other without seeing. We listen to each other and hear only a voice inside out self.The words of others are mistakes of our hearing, shipwrecks of our understanding. How confidently we believe OUR meanings of other people's words.