916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

My homeland is the portuguese language.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

I don't believe in the landscape.

The chill of what I won't feel gnaws at my present heart.

The perfect man of pagans was the perfection of the man there is; the perfect man of christians, the perfection of the man there isn't; the buddhists' perfect man, the perfection of not existing a man.

The Gods sell when they give. Glory is paid for with disgrace. Poor are the happy, for they are Just what passes.

Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination.

When I write, I solemnly visit myself.

That is my morality or my metaphysics or me myself: a passer-by in everything, even my own soul. I belong to nothing, I desire nothing, I am nothing except an abstract centre of impersonal sensations, a sentient mirror fallen from the wall but still turned to reflect the diversity of the world.