916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.

Strength without agility is a mere mass.

I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

Sometimes, when I wake up at night, I feel invisible hands weaving my destiny.

Everyone has his vanity, and each one's vanity is his forgetting that there are others with an equal soul.

Nature is the difference between the soul and God.

The end is low, like all quantitative ends, personal or not, and it can be attained and verified.

I sometimes think, with a sad delight, that if one day, in a future I no longer belong to, these sentences, that I write, last with praise, I will at last have the people who understand me, those mine, the true family to be born in and be loved... I will only be understood in effigy, when affection no longer repays the dead the unaffection that was, when living.

If life has given us no more than a prison cell, let's at least decorate it as best we can-with the shadows of our dreams, their colourful patterns engraving our oblivion on the static surface of the walls.