916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

Art lies because it's social.

The world belongs to who doesn't feel. The primary condition to be a practical man is the absence of sensitivity.

Life is a thread that someone entangled.

These pages are not my confession; they’re my definition. And I feel, as I begin to write it, that I can write it with some semblance of truth.

My curiosity sister of larks.

If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

Changing from the ghosts of faith to the spectres of reason is just changing cells.

There is no happiness without knowledge. But knowledge of happiness is unhappy; for knowing ourselves happy is knowing ourselves passing through happiness, and having to, immediatly at once, leave it behind. To know is to kill, in happiness as in everything. Not to know, though, is not to exist.

Fraternity has subtleties.