916 Quotes by Fernando Pessoa

I feel as if I'm always on the verge of waking up.

Whenever someone tells me he dreamed, I wonder if he realizes that he has never done anything but dream.

To know nothing about yourself is to live. To know yourself badly is to think.

I don't know what I feel or what I want to feel. I don't know what to think or what I am.

Blessed are those who entrust their lives to no one.

The principle tragedy of my life is, like all tragedies, an irony of Destiny. I reject real life as if it were a condemnation; I reject dreams as if they were an ignoble liberation. [...]After the end of the stars uselessly whitened in the morning sky and the breeze became less cold in the barely orange tinged in the yellow of the light on the scattered low clouds, I, who hadn't slept, could finally, slowly raise my body, exhausted from nothing from the bed from which I had thought the universe.

Stones in the road? I save every single one, and one day I'll build a castle.

Life is whatever we conceive it to be.

But do we really live? To live without knowing what life is - is that living?